Study Guide - Literary Terms

A tool that an author uses to help readers visualize what is happening in the story.

Words that sound like what they are. Pop! BAM! Slosh

A pronoun that ends-with self and -selves and refers to the subject of the sentence. If you take it out the sentence will not make sense.

A genre of literature including a setting that is usually real and drawn from history and may contain actual historical persons and events, but the main characters tend to be fictional

Extreme exaggeration

A comparison using like or as

Words or phrases that are not meant to be taken literally.

A pronoun uses a reflexive pronoun to add emphasis to the subject of the sentence.

The writing purpose is to explain, inform, or describe . The purpose is merely to inform-to-provide information

Giving inanimate object or animal human qualities