Literary Terms
“Life is a box of chocolates”
What is a metaphor
A pair of two lines that rhyme.
What is a couplet
A basic word to which affixes (prefixes and suffixes) are added.
What is root
A page at the beginning of a book giving its gives title, the names of the author, and publisher, and other publication information.
What is title page.
The chair groaned when Mr.Slone sat in it. Is an example of…
What is personification
The “paragraph” of a poem, where the poem is broke up.
What is a stanza
A word, letter, or number placed before another.
What is a prefix
Something to emphasize something strongly written.
What is bolded or highlighted words
Descriptive words and phrases that create a picture in the reader's mind
What is imagery
A fourteen line poem that follows a strict rhyme and line form.
What is a sonnet
A morpheme added to the end of a word to form a derivative.
What is a suffix
A list of items treated in a printed work that gives for each item the page number where it may be found.
What is index.
Repetition of sounds or letters at the beginning of a word
What is alliteration
A poem that mourns the passing of a person.
What is an elegy
The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.
What is Denotation
The products of the graphic arts, especially commercial design or illustration.
What is graphics.
The attitude a writer takes to the subject
What is tone.
Only three lines. Line one has five syllables. Line two has seven syllables. Line three has five syllables.
What is a Haiku
An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
What is connotation
A content control at the top of each chart control.
What is charts and headings.