Authors
Author of "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
Robert Frost
Themes in the Pedestrian
Humans run the risk of allowing technology to take over their lives
Personification
The giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea.
Hyperbole
Dramatic exaggeration
allusion
when an author refers to something from history
Author of "A Bird, came down the Walk"
Emily Dickinson
Themes in "Mother to Son"
life is harder than it seems, hardships, hope, and courage
Metaphor
A comparison without using like or as
Simile
A comparison using "like" or "as"
alliteration
Repetition of initial consonant sounds
Author of "What Stumped the Bluejay"
Mark Twain
Theme of "A Bird came down the Walk"
Nature's beauty, human connection with nature, and self-consciousness
Dialect
Regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation
Theme
Central idea of a work of literature
tenor
the subject of a metaphor
Author of "Mother to Son"
Langston Hughes
Themes in "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
The youth and freshness of life can never stay for long
Idiom
A common used expression that doesn't make sense if you taken literally
consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
vehicle
image that carries the weight of the comparison
Author of "The Pedestrian"
Ray Bradbury
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
extended metaphor
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
rhyme
Repetition of sounds at the end of words