What is the term?
Comparison between two things using the words like or as
Simile
A comparison or reference to something of cultural importance
Music Current events Literature
Film History Sports
Religion Pop culture etc.
It is a reference that most people of your culture, society, generation, region, will understand.
Allusion
Give the definition of figurative language?
What is figurative language, it refers to literary techniques that play with words’ meanings.
Give the definition of flashback
What is when the author stops the current storyline to give background on something that occurred in the past.
Anything that represents something.
Symbolism
A comparison between two things in which something is called another thing.
Metaphor
Give the definition of repetition.
What is when words / phrases are repeated.
This is usually done to emphasize a point.
Give the definition of personification
What is giving a non-human thing is being described used words that are usually used to describe humans.
When we are reminded of a certain event that has happened to a character earlier on in the story by something specific sparking that memory.
Flashback
A non-human thing is being described used words that are usually used to describe humans
Personification
Give the definition of Idiom
What is an Idiom, these are commonly-used expressions that usually have figurative meanings.
Give the definition of foreshadowing
What is when the author drops hints about events to come later in the story.
This literary term is known as a popular phrase or expession.
Idiom
It is meant to prove or emphasize a point - not to trick or deceive.
When someone uses this, they do not expect to be believed.
Hyperbole
Give the definition of extended metaphor
A metaphor that goes
beyond just one reference.
Give the definition of a hyperbole.
What is an obvious exaggeration.
Language that the author uses that appeals to one or more of your five senses.
Sense Imagery
A play on a word’s multiple meanings or the way a word might sound like another word.
Pun
Give the definition of anthropomorphism
What is something that is not human that is turned into a human-like character.
Give the definition of situational irony?
What is when something happens that is the opposite of what you’d expect.
Tools that the writers can use to make their work come alive for the reader by making the text more interesting, engaging, and memorable.
Literary Techniques
1. When something happens that is the opposite of what you’d expect.
2. When words are used (spoken or written) in a way that is the opposite of how they are usually used or so that their meanings are the opposite of what they usually are.
3. Is when the reader/audience knows or understands something that a character in the story/movie/etc. does not know.
What is situational irony
What is verbal irony
What is dramatic irony
Give the definitions of the 3 types of irony?
1. Situational Irony: When something happens that is the opposite of what you’d expect.
2. Verbal irony: When words are used (spoken or written) in a way that is the opposite of how they are usually used or so that their meanings are the opposite of what they usually are.
3. Dramatic irony: Is when the reader/audience knows or understands something that a character in the story/movie/etc. does not know.
Give the definition of anaphora
What is the repetition of the first part of a sentence or line of poetry.