1. Grab Your Journals

2. Literary Terms Review
Study for your test!

3. Alliteration Alliteration:
Repetition of the same beginning sound in a sequence.
Examples:
Three grey geese in a green field grazing.
Grey were the geese and green was the grazing grass.

4. Foreshadowing
Is a way of indicating or hinting at what will come later
Builds anticipation for what will later happen
Creates suspense
Ask yourself these questions to recognize and understand foreshadowing:
Are there words/phrases about future events?
Is there a change happening in the weather, the setting, or the mood?
Do characters or the narrator observe something in the background that might be a hint about something to come later?

5. Imagery
Imagery
Descriptive words or phrases that appeal to the 5 senses: sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell- creating a picture in the reader’s mind.
Examples:
“He struggles up to the surface and tried to cry out, but the wash from the speeding yacht slapped him in the face and the salt water in his open mouth made him gag” – Most Dangerous Game

6. Metaphor
Metaphor
A figure of speech in which two things are compared, usually by saying one thing is another, or by substituting a more descriptive word for the more common or usual word that would be expected.
Examples:
The world's a stage
He was a lion in battle
Drowning in debt
A sea of troubles.

7. Personification Personification
A figure of speech in which things or ideas are given human attributes.
Examples:
Dead leaves dance in the wind
Blind justice
Winter wrapped her cold fingers around me

8. Allusion
Allusion
Reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing that is known from literature, history, religion, myth, politics, sports, science, or the arts
Examples:
If it doesn’t stop raining, I’m going to build an ark.
My sister has so many pets I’m going to call her Old McDonald

9. Tone
Tone
Tone, in written composition, is an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience.
Tone List

10. Mood
Mood
In literature, mood is a literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions.
Mood List

11. Reading Strategy Step 1: Read on the line:
Who, what, when, where, why (summary)
Step 2: Read between the line:
Look at key words and phrases= diction
Is it meaningful? What does it convey? Suggest?
Step 3: Tone and Mood
Think about the attitude of the author/characters
Consider how the story line conveys a certain atomosphere