Literary Terms By: Citlally Panduro & Andres Escamilla

All the Terms Alliteration Ballad Characterization Connotation and Denotation Dialogue Fable Figurative Language Flashback Hyperbole Imagery Inference Irony Metaphor Oxymoron Personification Simile

Alliteration Where to words that being the same but mean different things. Example: Don't delay dawns disarming display. Dusk demands daylight. Dewdrops dwell delicately drawing dazzling delight.

Ballad A story in poetic form. Example Light do I see within my Lady’s eyes And loving spirits in its plenisphere Which bear in strange delight on my heart’s care Till Joy’s awakened from that sepulchre.

Characterization The way you describe yourself. Example: In the book to kill a mocking bird, by Harper Lee one example of characterization is when Boo Radley is described by the kids as ghost like.

Connotation and Denotation Words are not limited to one single meaning. Example: Most words have multiple meanings, which are categorized as either denotative or connotative.

Dialogue A conversation between two or more persons. Example: “Algernon, did you hear what I was playing?" Jane asked. "Whatd'ya mean? The horrid out-of-tune canapony?" "No the lilting ballad." "No, I didn't hear that."

Fable A deliberately false or improbable account Example: The Shepard's Boy and the Wolf.

Figurative language Figure of speech Example: "Its fleece was white as snow" is an example of a figurative language from a children's rhyme.

Flashback Something that happened in the pasted. Example: Uuumm…on one gets example …sorry…D=

Hyperbole A speech that exaggeration. Example: I could sleep for a year.

Imagery When you use some that has like or as. Example: The gurgling sound of my brother slurping

Inference The act or process of inferring. Example: "People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false: a gift confers no rights."

Irony The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite. Example: “How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend.

Metaphor A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is used. Example: When Neil Young sings, “Love is a rose.” “rose” is the vehicle for “love,” the tenor

Oxymoron A phrase of two words where the two words disagree with one another. Example: Bittersweet

Personification An object or abstraction is given human quality. Example: The star danced playfully in the moonlit sky.

Simile To compeer something alike. Example: "He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow."