Literary Terms

Just before 11:15, the students were a hungry pack of wolves. This is an example of:

The author gives human traits to inanimate objects.

The author interrupts the flow of the story to give history or back story.

The main idea or message of the story... might be stated directly or indirectly.

Cruel Kindness and Living Death are examples of:

The process through which an author is created.

The emotional or subjective meaning of a word.

When the author repeats the same first consonant sound in a sentence or line of poetry.

When the author appeals to your 5 senses to paint a picture with words in your mind.

Exaggeration for emphasis.

Choose the one that is not an example of an abstract idea or concept.

When the author gives the reader clues or hints as to what is to come in the story.

The writer uses a concrete object to stand for an abstract idea.

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