Literary Terms for Sixth Graders

a conclusion the reader makes based on available information

Are you guys awesome?

A group of lines in a poem is called _________

This is an author's use of clues to hint at what might happen later in the story.

can be an internal or external struggle between opposing forces/characters in a story 

character or force causing the conflict/problem in a story

Giving non-human objects human-like characteristics

a comparison using “like” or “as”

A type of poem with 4 lines and a ABAB or ABCB rhyme scheme

A type of poem with no rules

A type of poem that makes a specific design that coincides with the topic of the poem

A type of poem with 5 lines, is usually funny, and the rhyme scheme is A-A-B-B-A

Words that sound like the thing they refer to

the feelings a reader gets while reading a story (the atomosphere in a literary piece)

A type of poem Shakespeare is famous for writing

a situation where the opposite of what is expected to occur does occur!

An extreme exaggeration for effect

Using the same beginning sound in multiple words

a particular order in which related events, movements, or things follow each other.

Something else that represents something else for meaning

the exact meaning of a word

The attitude the writer/author takes toward his subject or audience is called

A comparison between two unlike things that does NOT use like or as

_______is a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art. 

A type of Japanese poem with 3 lines and the syllable count for each line is 5-7-5

word or expression that is meant to be taken factually and not figuratively