Literary Terms #2

Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. Examples are similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration, or idioms.

• rhythm

• stanza

• figurative language

• literal language

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

giving human qualities to a non-human (the moon yawned, the flowers nodded their heads)

• personification

• metaphor

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

compares two unlike things by saying one is like or as another (sly as a fox)

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• adjective

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Extreme exaggeration (I waited in line for a year)

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally. (I'm going to hit the books.)

• metaphor

• idiom

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Compares two unlike things by saying one is the other. (The snow is a white blanket.)

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

words that sound like the noise they make (buzz, crunch, hiccup)

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

When several words that begin with the same sound are next to each other, or close together. (wounded world, wonderous one)

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• alliteration

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

to explain how two things are alike

• idiom

• contrast

• compare

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.4.2D

to explain how two things are different

• compare

• contrast

• metaphor

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.L.4.6