literary Devices

ambiguity

• words that have 2 meanings

• words that have unclear meanings

• words that mean the opposite

• Words that are similar meanings

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

epithet

• A word meaning a tombstone

• A climax

• A word meaning intense excitement

• a word meaning another name for a person alias

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Sensory Language

• words about touching, feeling, seeing and tasking

• olfactory is an example

• Words to explain your feelings

• long words

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Diction is

• reading aloud

• Taking notes

• word choice

• how you speak

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Pathetic Fallacy

• feeling useless and it's funny

• the external environment parallel the inner self

• A type of villainous trait

• The lowest point in a novel

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

synecdoche

• Another way of referring to something by a component part of it.

• A type of sound caused by strong words

• Another name for rhyming

• Another name for rising action

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

They struggled over boulders, crevices and unscalable precipices.

• emotional language

• List of 3

• Hyperbole

• Epithet

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

connotation

• The use of a word

• The associated meanings of a word

• The linkage of a word to the next.

• A settlement that is large.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

metaphor

• A word that is used to describe another word that is similar

• The use of I in writing

• A comparison of two concepts for dramatic effect.

• A word that is similar to another.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

hyperbole

• A big match after the superbowl.

• A massive concave dish

• Exaggeration for dramatic effect

• A lack of empathy by a character.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A