Literary Terms Grade 10 Midterm

The person that communicates with the reader in a poem.

writing that explains, gives an analysis, or reviews a topic

genre of literature about true events

groups of lines within a poem

writing that wants readers to believe a certain way or act a certain way

Two or more things are compared using LIKE or AS for comparison.

language that appeals to the reader's 5 senses

writing about someone written by someone else

Something that stands for something else.

same vowel sounds occurring within poetry often at the end of lines

these make up the stanzas of a poem

pattern of stressed and unstressed sounds within a line of poetry

Story of a person's life written by that person.

pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables 

an author's account of a historical event

compares two things but says one thing becomes the other 

giving a nonhuman object human traits

repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words in the same line