Literary Terms

Imagery

• Uses sensory language to describe

• Copying and pasting pictures into stories

• Using symbols to represent ideas or qualities

• The rate at which a story moves

Makes the reader smell, taste, feel, see, hear, and imagine what the writer is describing

• Symbolism

• Diction

• Pacing

• Imagery

Is this a simile or a metaphor?

He was my rock, so strong and supportive.

• Simile

• Metaphor

hyperbole

• super exaggeration

• an energetic word or phrase

• The bear was 60 feet tall, and when it growled, it shook the trees.

• when words take the shape of their subject

simile

• She is as fast as the wind.

• She was the wind blowing across the field.

• She felt the wind in her hair.

• She is like the wind.

metaphor

• She ran like the wind.

• She felt the wind in her hair.

• She was as fast as the wind.

• She was the wind blowing across the field.

personification

• Blackbeard in "The Rule of Names"

• the lions in The Lion King

• Turtle Wexler in The Westing Game

• Rikki in "Rikki-tikki-tavi"

figurative language

• The crab was as big as a whale.

• Crows and ravens are intelligent birds.

• The sky misses the sun at night.

• Whales swim in the ocean.

alliteration

• cat

  hat

• Sally saw seashells on the shore.

• pans

  hams

• He ran like the wind.

symbol

• cat

  hat

• Red often stands for love or danger.

• I smelled the sizzling bacon as the morning sun danced in my eyes.

• Weird William walked westward.