1. Literary Terms You Should Know In your notes, write the definition, and one example for each term.

2. Figurative Language a tool a writer uses to help the reader visualize what is happening in a piece of writing. Helps create IMAGERY, see the images that are written.

3. Imagery the use of vivid sensory description to create mental pictures. - The room was dark and musty and smelled like an old shoe. - The blueberries were as big as your thumb and tasted like an berry explosion. - We heard the horses hoofs clatter on the cobblestone street.

4. Metaphor The definition of a metaphor is "a figure of speech containing an implied comparison, in which a word or phrase ordinarily and primarily used of one thing is applied to anotherdefinition of a metaphor -He was addicted to love - Sea of grief - Broken Heart - Rug rats George is a sheep.

5. Simile two unlike things are compared using the word "like" or "as" followed by a figurative example. -The sun is like a yellow ball of fire in the sky. - Her feet were bigger than boats. - They fought like cats and dogs.

6. Personification giving human qualities to non-human objects - - The rain kissed my cheeks as it fell. - The car engine coughed and sputtered as it started. - The microwave timer told me my pizza was ready.

7. Hyperbole the use of a big exaggeration to make a point or for effect. - He has tons of money. - Her brain is the size of a pea. - I’ve told you a million times to capitalize people’s names.

8. Oxymorons Two contradicting terms, words or phrases brought together to create a new idea. Young adult Accidently on purpose Military intelligence I burn and freeze like ice Civil war Cautiously optimistic Clearly confused Random order Big baby

9. Alliteration repetition of an initial sound; there should be at least two repetitions in a row - The wooly walrus wonders when we’ll walkby. - Sally sells seashells by the seashore. - Peter Piper picks pickled peppers.

10. Consonance Similarity between consonants in a line of poetry, prose or dialogue “Amidst the mist of fearsome frost with barest wrists and stoutest boasts, he thrusts his fists against the post and still insist he sees the ghost.”

11. Assonance In poetry, a repetition of vowel sounds "I lie down by the side of my bride"/"Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese"/"Hear the lark and harden to the barking of the dark fox gone to ground” --Pink Floyd

12. Onomatopoeia when a word sounds like what it represents - splash-kiss - drip-whisper - smush-pow - splat-kaboom

13. Irony Sarcasm Something humorous based on a contradiction Absurdity and Inconsistency

14. Dramatic Irony a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play. http://ed.ted.com/lessons/in-on-a-secret-that-s- dramatic-irony-christopher-warnerhttp://ed.ted.com/lessons/in-on-a-secret-that-s- dramatic-irony-christopher-warner

15. Situational Irony http://ed.ted.com/lessons/situational-irony-the- opposite-of-what-you-think-christopher- warnerhttp://ed.ted.com/lessons/situational-irony-the- opposite-of-what-you-think-christopher- warner

16. Verbal Irony http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-is-verbal-irony- christopher-warnerhttp://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-is-verbal-irony- christopher-warner