Literary Terms Grade 10 Midterm

pattern of stressed and unstressed sounds within a line of poetry

The person that communicates with the reader in a poem.

genre of literature about true events

groups of lines within a poem

these make up the stanzas of a poem

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

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

Something that stands for something else.

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.

writing about someone written by someone else

compares two things but says one thing becomes the other

language that appeals to the reader's 5 senses

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

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

pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables 

giving a nonhuman object human traits

an author's account of a historical event