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Literary Terms By: Citlally Panduro & Andres Escamilla
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All the Terms Alliteration Ballad Characterization Connotation and Denotation Dialogue Fable Figurative Language Flashback Hyperbole Imagery Inference Irony Metaphor Oxymoron Personification Simile
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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Fable A deliberately false or improbable account Example: The Shepard's Boy and the Wolf.
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Figurative language Figure of speech Example: "Its fleece was white as snow" is an example of a figurative language from a children's rhyme.
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Flashback Something that happened in the pasted. Example: Uuumm…on one gets example …sorry…D=
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Hyperbole A speech that exaggeration. Example: I could sleep for a year.
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Imagery When you use some that has like or as. Example: The gurgling sound of my brother slurping
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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."
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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.
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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
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Oxymoron A phrase of two words where the two words disagree with one another. Example: Bittersweet
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Personification An object or abstraction is given human quality. Example: The star danced playfully in the moonlit sky.
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Simile To compeer something alike. Example: "He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow."
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