Roar Literary Elements
Assonance - The repetition of VOWEL sounds Consonance - The repetition of CONSONANT sounds
Rhyme - The repetition of vowel sounds in neighboring words (pair/fair, madly/glad). End rhyme - the rhyming of words at the ends of lines Internal Rhyme - the rhyming of two or more words within the same line
Alliteration - repetition of beginning consonant sounds (sad/Sunday, knowing/nobody, candy/kisses)
Onomatopoeia - words that imitate their sound (BAM! SPLAT! hiss... rip)
Allusion - reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, etc.
Hyperbole – exaggeration for effect
Idiom - a common phrase or figure of speech not to be taken literally (beating around the bush, raining cats and dogs)
Metaphor – a comparison in which something is described as though it were something else (equaling one to the other)
Personification – giving a nonhuman subject human characteristics (the wind whistled at night)
Simile - comparing two things using “like” or “as”
Tone - The writer or speaker’s attitude toward his/her audience and subject. (Ex.: serious, playful, bitter, light- hearted, etc.)
Theme - A central message, concern, or purpose in a literary work about human beings or life. A theme statement is a general, universal statement.
Connotation - The feeling or tone of a word.