1. By: Ms. Gott 7th Grade Language Arts
Literary Elements
By: Ms. Gott
7th Grade Language Arts

2. ALLITERATION Example: Double “C” – Coco for Coco Puffs
1.) The repetition of consonant (everything except a vowel) letters.
Example: Double “C” – Coco for Coco Puffs
Example: Double “P”- Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers.
2.) Poetry, tongue twisters, advertisements, and in most literature.

3. PERSONIFICATION Example: A rock is non-human
1.) Something non-human is given human characteristics.
Example: A rock is non-human
Example: Cry is a human characteristic.
Example: The rock cried during the sad movie.
2.) Science fiction, fantasy, movies, and books. It is also seen in poetry.

4. STEREOTYPE
1.) Oversimplified opinion or image of a person or group of people.
Example: The student who went to Harvard is a “bookworm”.
Example: The author portrays the student as a bookworm simply because he/she goes to an Ivy League school.
2.) Authors often stereotype characters so that they are easy to categorize.

5. GENRE
1.) A type of category of literature or film marked by certain features.
Example: Mystery- death, red- herrings, clues, suspects, several characters, detectives, murders, wills, money, motive, etc.

6. SIMILE Example: Tommy’s smile is like sunshine.
1.) A figure of speech when two un-like things are compared using, “like” or “as”.
Example: Tommy’s smile is like sunshine.
Example: Tommy’s smile is being compared to sunshine using “like”.

7. METAPHOR
1.) A figure of speech when two un-like things are compared without using “like or as”.
Example: “When Michelle runs during a track meet, she is a jet.”
Example: Michelle’s running is being compared to the quickness of a jet. It’s done without using like or as.