Literary Terms #1
Prose writing about real events
Nonfiction
A comparison of two seemingly unlike things using the words like or as
Simile
Let freedom ring.
Repetition
Intense and violent disaster or change
Cataclysm
Author of To Kill a Mockingbird?
Harper Lee
Story of a person's life written by someone else
Biography
A writer’s intentional reuse of a sound, word, phrase, or sentence.
Repetition
Justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Simile
Publicly expressed honor or respect
Homage
Author of The Teacher Who Changed My Life?
Nicholas Gage
Writing or speech meant to be understood imaginatively instead of literally
Figuarative language.
A type of autobiography that focuses on one incident or period in a person’s life
Memoir
Climb into [someone's] skin and walk around in it.
Metaphor.
Having a sharp, strong taste or smell
Pungent
Author of I Have a Dream?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A reference to a well-known person, event, object, or work from history or literature
Allusion
A magazine or newspaper article that represents the opinions of the editors or publishers
Editorial
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
Metaphor.
Worthy of praise or honor
Laudable
Author of Aha Moment?
Julia Alvarez
A technique used by a speaker or a writer to achieve a particular effect, especially to persuade or influence
Rhetorical Device
A comparison in which one thing is spoken or written about as if it were another
Metaphor
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
Allusion
To wipe out completely; to do away with, leaving no trace
Obliterate
Author(s) of Trapped New Orleans Pets Still Being Rescued?
Laura Parker and Anita Manning