1. Literary Terms
By: Jesus Ramirez

2. Alliteration
A repetition of the initial sounds of several words in a group.
Ex: She sells sea shells by the sea shore.

3. Ballad
A sad love story usually in a poem.
Ex: Romeo & Juliet

4. Characterization
A way a writer uses to show the personality of a character.
Ex: Scout- she like a tomboy.

5. Connotation and Denotation
The way it makes you feel.
Ex: youngster, child, kid, little one, small fry, brat, minor.

6. Dialogue A conversation between characters.
Ex: The boy said, “Hi, how are you doing?”
The girl answered, “I’m doing fine thanks”.

7. Fable
A tale designed to illustrate.
Ex: "Honesty is the best policy"

8. Figurative Language
Whenever you describe something by comparing it with something else.
Ex: My love is a red, red rose.
                   

9. Flashback
A shift in a narrative to an earlier event that interrupts the normal chronological development of a story.
Ex: I remembered, years ago, my father would stare mindlessly at the picture for minutes, sometimes hours, before a bird chirping would awaken him from his trance.

10. Hyperbole
A figure of speech.
Ex: I am so hungry I could eat a horse.

11. Imagery A group of words in a literary work.
Ex: I took a walk around the world to Ease my troubled mind.

12. Inference Judgment based on reasoning.
Ex: The baby was asleep upstairs in his bed. Suddenly, I heard a loud, "THUMP!" and he began crying hysterically. I ran upstairs because I inferred that he fell out of bed.

13. Irony An action is the reverse of what the actor expected.
Ex: It is very ironic that you still brush your teeth while you are shaving.

14. Metaphor
Two unlike quantities.
Ex: She's the apple of my eye.

15. Oxymoron Combined terms that normally don’t go together.
Ex: That sumo wrestler is small.

16. Personification
Something that is not human is given human characteristics.
Ex: Fear knocked on the door. Faith answered. There was no one there.

17. Simile
When things are compared.
Ex: He is like a bull.