Literary Terms

What is personification?

• Exaggerating the facts

• Comparing object to a human being

• Standing for something else

• Using "like" or "as"

Onomatopoeia

• using the five senses

• compares two unlike things

• word that sounds like noise it represents

• gives attributes of a human to an inanimate object

climax

• the hero of a story
• the most exciting part of the story.
• tell how things are alike
• tell how things are different

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

The hero of a story.

• antagonist
• protagonist
• plot
• quest

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Setting

• where and when a story takes place
• where a story takes place
• the people or animals in a story or drama
  all of the events that happen in a story
• all of the events that happen in  a story

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

All of the events that happen in a story.

• resolution
• plot
• conflict
• climax

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

imagery

• uses the five senses to interpret

• uses similar vowel sounds

• uses similar consonant sounds

• uses the sound it represents

simile

• compares two unlike things

• compares two unlike things using "like" or "as"

• compares two living beings

• compares to things that are alike

end rhyme

• uses words at the end of a stanza

• uses words within the same line

• uses words at the end of a line

• uses words at the end of a poem

alliteration

• the rhyming of vowel sounds

• the rhyming of consonant sounds