Literary Terms

Words spelled the way they sound

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Snapshot

A direct representation or a comparison where one thing is another

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Imagery

• Personification

A device that gives human attributes to animals and objects

• Juxtaposition
• Hyperbole
• Personification
• Imagery

What poetic device is this?

• Repetition
• Consonance
• Assonance
• Alliteration

A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Theme

• Simile

"I told you a million times, do not exaggerate!" is an example of

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Tone

A mental picture described using sight, smell, taste, hearing, or touch.

• Background

• Setting

• Diction

• Imagery

Writing techniques used by authors to engage readers beyond the literal meaning of words

• literary devices or literary elements
• figurative language or figures of speech
• poetic devices or sound devices
• All of these

The _____________________ meaning of words does not mean what it said.

It can be connotation or the feeling / idea we give a word.

• Literal

• Figurative

• Explicit

• Implicit

The _____________________ meaning of words is what the words actually say.

It can be denotation or the dictionary meaning.

• Connotative

• Implicit

• Literal

• Explicit