Literary Techniques

An extended metaphor in which the characters, places, and objects in a narrative carry figurative meaning is a....

• Assonance

• Allegory

• Metaphora

• Anecdote

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Someone or something placed in an inappropriate period of time.

• Anaphora

• Anarchronism

• Historianism

• Past tense

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

An Anecdote is...

• repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of a line throughout a work or the section of a work

• a comparison between two unlike things, this describes one thing as if it were something else.

• a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person

• someone or something placed in an inappropriate period

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Alliteration is the repetition of a vowel sound at the beginning of a word

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Assonance is the repetition of a vowel sound at the beginning of a word

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Anaphora is...

• Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a line throughout a work or the section of a work.

• Repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of a line throughout a work or the section of a work.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Epiphora is...

• Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a line throughout a work or the section of a work.

• Repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of a line throughout a work or the section of a work.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

An Ellipsis is...

• a situation in which words are left out of a sentence but the sentence can still be understood or left for interpretation

• ...

• repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a line throughout a work or the section of a work

• a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Hyperbole is exaggeration for effect; often for irony

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Imagery is...

• when a character is drawn in a narrative

• repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of a line throughout a work or the section of a work

• images that trigger the mind to fuse together memories of the senses

• a rhetorical figure embodying a seeming contradiction that is nonetheless true

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3