Author's Craft Definitions

a comparison between two unlike things using “like” or “as”

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

assigning human characteristics to an object that is not alive

• assonance

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

vivid details provided by the author to help the reader imagine a scene

• assonance

• imagery

• similes

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

repetition of consonant sounds

• metaphor

• alliteration

• anaphora

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

repetition of vowel sounds

• onomatopoeia

• assonance

• connotation

• theme

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

repetition of phrases at the beginnings of lines throughout a text, usually a poem or a speech

(We will . . . We will . . . We will . . . )

• end rhyme

• anaphora

• personification

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

rhyming words that appear at the end of a line, usually in a poem or a speech

• internal rhyme

• end rhyme

• patterns

• mayhem

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

the emotional feeling or idea associated with a word

• connotation

• allusion

• anaphora

• denotation

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

a reference to something well-known in a particular culture, usually in religion, history, art

• simile

• foreshadowing

• conflict

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Rhyme that occurs with words having similar vowel sounds and consonant sounds within the line, not at the end of the line of a poem or speech.

• targeted rhythm

• Internal rhyme

• assonance

• tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9