Literary Terms

An object that stands for or represents something else

Reference to historical, literary,or pop-culture figures and events

Words that sound alike.

Poetry that tells a story

The author's feelings about a subject

Clues that suggest future events

Directly addressing an inanimate object

The reader's feelings about the subject

Repetition of vowel sounds

The reader's feelings about the subject

Giving human characteristics to something not human

Comparison between unlike objects using words'like' or 'as'

When the reader knows something the characters do not

A thought that continues directly from one line of poetry to the next

What is the rhetorical device in (a)n argument /persuasive essay used to show trustworthiness/credibility?

A break or punctuation within a line of poetry

Direct comparison between unlike objects

Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

The autor's message( what the author wants the reader to know)

Words that appear to disagree; a contradiction in terms

A rhyming pair

Emotion connected to a word

When a charater says one thing but means another

A look into the past at some point in a story

Repetition of consonant sounds in the middle or end of the words

When something unexpected happens

The rhythm pattern of poems

Extreme exaggeration

What is the rhetorical device in (a)n argument/persuasive essay that used to show emotion?

Words or phrases occurring several times

What is the rhetorical device in (a)n argument/persuasive essay to show facts/reasoning

Ryming words within  a line