Definitions 1
Comparing two objects using like or as.
What is simile
Comparing two unlike objects without using like or as
Metaphor
The stale bread was as hard as a rock.
Simile
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
What is alliteration?
The verbs "must", "need", "have to".
What is high modality.
Using extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole
The five main forms of imagery.
What are visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile, and gustatory?
The car lights blinked in the distance.
Personification
The old strange fragrance filled the air
a fragrance like the garden pink,
but tinged with vague medicinal stink
of a camphor, soap, new sponger, blent,
with chloroform and violent scent.
What is olfactory imagery?
An opinion or editorial always includes this final directive to its audience.
What is a "call to action"?
Giving human qualities to an object or animal
What is personification
Words that imitate the sounds they make.
What is onomatopoeia
Boom, splat, buzz, kachoo!
Onomatopoeia
The boy's stomach was a bottomless pit.
What is metaphor
An appeal to an audience's emotions in a persuasive text.
What is pathos?
The repetition of a beginning consonant sound in words that are close together
What is alliteration
Using a play on words by ironically referring to two meanings of a single word.
What is pun?
It was so cold outside, I thought I would die. (Could it really have been THAT cold?)
Hyperbole
What is the wolf?
The repetition of similar vowel sounds or consonant sounds in a series of words or phrases (two terms).
What is assonance and consonance?
A reference to another literary work, historical event, or important person.
What is an allusion?
The term for all of the non-literal language devices a writer uses to give the reader a better description and understanding of what is happening in the story or poem.
Figurative Language
The sound device used in these lines of poetry:
So when I felt him soften and sleep,
when he started, as usual, to snore,
I let him slip and slide and sprawl,
What is sibilance?
The form of rhyme shown here.
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art—
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
What is end rhyme?
The device of posing a question, then immediately answering it.
What is hypophora?