Literal Language
Description of the setting. Usually includes the 5 senses: sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell.
What is Imagery?
Comparing one thing to another using “like” or “as.”
What is Simile?
The “paragraphs” of a poem.
What is Stanza?
When the spoken word of different characters is included in the text.
What is Dialogue?
Comparing one thing to another WITHOUT using “like” or “as.”
What is Metaphor?
When two words have the same vowel sounds.
What is Rhyme?
When an author makes an indirect reference to some idea, figure, other text, place, or event that originates from outside the text.
What is Allusion?
When a non-human thing is treated as if it has human characteristics.
What is Personification?
Single rows of words in a poem.
What are lines?
"The green grass was soft to the touch of my bare feet" is an example of this literal language device.
What is Imagery?
"Quiet as a mouse" is an example of this figurative literary device.
What is Simile?
A word that represents the sound you hear.
What is Onomatopoeia?
"Chocolate is his Kryptonite" is an example of this literal literary device.
What is Allusion?
"Her head is in the clouds" is an example of this figurative literary device.
What is a Metaphor?
The continuation of a sentence across a line break.
What is Enjambment?