“L to J”Literary Terms

Part 2

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When the same consonant sound from the beginning of a word is repeated often in a piece of writing.

Alliteration

BA division or type of literature. The most

common three are poetry, prose, and drama.

Genre

CA figure of speech that uses like or as to

compare two unlike ideas.

Simile

DWhen a reader uses details and clues

from sentences surrounding an unknown word to figure out it’s definition.

Context clues

EMakes a comparison between two or more

things that are similar in some ways but otherwise unalike.

Analogy

FThe set of ideas that are associated with a

word in addition to it’s meaning.

Example: “Vacation Spot” would be one for the word “beach”

Connotation

GWhen an author makes a reference to a

well-known person, event, place, literary work, or work of art in their writing.

Allusion

HA group of lines of poetry that are usually

similar in length and pattern and are separated by spaces.

Stanza

IWhen the same vowel sound is repeated

in multiple words in a sentence and/or phrase.

Assonance

JPart of a writer’s style that includes their

choices of words and how they put those words together. Two popular descriptions are formal and informal.

Diction

KThe rhyming pattern in a poem.

Meter

LA brief story about an interesting,

amusing, or strange event. Writers often use this to make a point or simply to entertain the reader.

Anecdote

MAn expression or figure of speech that has

a meaning to a particular language or region.

Idiom

NA type of figurative language in which a

non-human subject is given human characteristics.

Personification

0The form of a language spoken by a

particular region or group. For example, American English vs. British English.

Dialect

PA form of poetry that comes from Japan

and is only three lines long.

Haiku

QA contradiction between what happens

and what is expected to happen. Example: I wore a dress for my date, and he took me

through a McDonald’s drive-through.

Irony

RA type of figurative language in which

something is described as though it were something else.

Metaphor

SA word that imitates a sound. Some

examples are crash, bang, and buzz.

Onomatopoeia

TThe perspective from which a story is told.

Point-of-view

UA regular pattern of rhyming words in a

poem. Examples: abab, aabbaabb, abac

Rhyme Scheme

VA conversation between characters. The

exact words and phrases being said are often times put in quotation marks.

Dialogue

WWriting or speech that appeals to one or

more of the five senses.

Sensory Language

XA genre of literature that is composed of

musical and emotionally charged language. Imagery, figurative language, and rhyming are used often in this type of writing.

Poetry

YThe use of representations in writing for

ideas than an author chooses to high-light or give deeper meaning to.

Symbolism