Intro to Reading: Literary Terms

hints of something in the future

• imagery

• hyperbole

• foreshadowing

• flashback

how the writer feels about the subject

• mood

• tone

• theme

• author's purpose

how the writer wants me to feel

• tone

• theme

• mood

• metaphor

life lesson of a text

• theme

• main idea

• controlling idea

• plot

can mean 1st, 2rd, or 3rd person omniscient

• characterization

• organization strategy

• point of view

• opinion

comparing two things using like or as

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• analogy

comparing two things without using like or as

• metaphor

• simile

• analogy

• hyperbole

an exaggeration

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• simile

giving an animal or object qualities or abilities that only a human can have

• hyperbole

• imagery

• metaphor

• personification

descriptive language that draws on your five senses (sight, touch, smell, taste, hearing)

• imagery

• figurative language

• theme

• allusion