Senior Midterm Exam 2020 Literary Terms

a non-fiction literary genre which presents an accurate record of events in chronological order

a short, witty statement that contains practical information

A comparison that extends over a longer piece of work is called

the main idea or message the author is trying to communicate to the reader

a genre of writing that is about a person's life and written by that person

a story about someone's life written by another person

the same letter or sound at the beginning of closely connected words.

A comparison that extends over a longer piece of work is called a synonym.

literature passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth

a word for a direct comparison of two things that share a similarity without the use of like or as

an exaggerated statement

the pattern of rhymes that come at the end of lines of poetry

a word that means the opposite of another word is a simile

when words or lines are repeated at regular intervals

written stories, legends, customs of a people passed down from generation to generation

giving human traits to an inanimate object

a word that means the same as another

words that appeal to one or more of the reader's five senses

shows the difference between two different things

the writer's attitude towards the subject

a comparison using like or as

the time and place where a story is set

an object that stands for an abstract idea

an indirect reference to a biblical passage or figure from the Bible

a general word for a comparison of two otherwise unlike things that share a similarity

the order in which events occur in time