Literary Terms

Alliteration

The repetition of same or similar sound at or near the beginning of a word in a series

Allusion

Making a reference to literature, art, history, or pop culture

Flashback

an interruption in the chronological narrative that tells about something as it happened before that point in the story

Foreshadowing

The use of clues by the author providing hints on whats to come building suspence.

Hyperbole

an extreme exageration

Idiom

an expression where its literal meaning is not what it actually means

Imagery

the picture that forms in the readers mind as the read

Irony

the contrast between what is and what should be

Metaphor

comparison between two things without using like of as

Onomatopoeia

use of words to describe sounds

Oxymoron

a self-contradicting combination of words

Personification

non-human things taking human characteristics

Pun

a play on words

Rhetorical Question

a fake question

Simile

comparison using like or as

Symbolism

the use of symbols to represent something?

Protagonist

The main character

Antagonist

A character who opposes the main character

1st Person

Told from POV of character

2nd Person

Narrator is talking to the reader

3rd Person

The Narrator is not part of the story

Limited

narrator shares thoughts and feeling of one

Omniscient

Narrator shares all characters thoughts and feelings

Objective

Narrator only shares facts

The 3 little pigs is told in

3rd person

Which is an example of an oxymoron

That shirt is pretty ugly

What are the pro-nouns for 2nd person

you/your

What are the pro-nouns for 3rd person

he/she/they