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lit terms6
6th grade literary terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| alliteration | the repetition of the same or very similar sound "peter pepper picked..." |
| allusion | a reference to a statement, person, place from something different. |
| autobiography | the story of a person's life written by themselves |
| biography | the story of a person's life written by someone else |
| character | a person or animal in a story |
| description | the kind of writing that creates a clear image of something |
| conflict | a struggle or clash between 2+ opposing forces |
| connotation | the feelings that have come to be attached to a word (cheap vs. inexpensive) |
| fiction | a made-up piece of writing |
| dialect | a way of speaking that is from a particular region or group of people (ex. from the south) |
| dialogue | conversation between 2+ characters |
| drama | a story written to be acted in front of an audience |
| essay | a short piece of non-fiction writing |
| fantasy | imaginative writing that carries the reader into a world where the regular laws of nature do not apply |
| fable | a very brief story that teaches a lesson (boy who cried wolf) |
| figurative language | writing that describes something in terms of something else (she was the salt of the earth) |
| folktale | a story with no known author passed from 1 generation to another by word of mouth |
| free verse | poetry that is free of rhyme scheme |
| imagery | the language that appeals to the 5 senses (sight, sound, touch, smell, taste) |
| irony | a contrast between what is expected to happen and what really happens (a shoemaker wears shoes with holes) |
| legend | a story usually based on some historical facts |
| limerick | a humorous 5-line verse of poetry AABBA |
| flashback | a scene that breaks the normal time in a plot to show something that happened in the past |
| foreshadowing | the use of clues/hints to suggest things that will occur later in the plot |
| personification | a special kind of metaphor where a non-living thing is given human traits (the clock looked...) |
| plot | the series of events in a story |
| poetry | a kind of rhythmic language that uses figures of speech and imagery to appeal to emotion and imagination |
| point of view | the vantage point from which a story is told (first person, second person, third person) |
| prose | any writing that is NOT poetry |
| refrain | a repeated word, phrase, line in a poem, song or speech (I have a Dream...) |
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