INSTRUCTIONS: Provide the definition (please be thorough) of ONE of the following literary terms AND provide an example:
allusion, foreshadowing, hyperbole, cliche, metaphor, irony, imagery, personification, onomatopoeia, alliteration, genre, connotation, denotation, stream-of-consciousness, oxymoron, allegory, reversal
EXAMPLE: narrator: the voice of the person telling the story, not to be confused with the author's voice. Much of Animal Dreams is narrated by the main character, Codi. She narrates from first-person, limited point of view. Susie Smith--The Avengers
The first person to have 8 DIFFERENT team members respond to a DIFFERENT TERM wins a consumable prize during an upcoming class period.
Team members MUST list their team name after their response or it doesn't count.
***RULE: once a term is used by a team member, no member of either team may use it again. This is so we don't have 12 people define hyperbole, giving the same definition and example. The idea is for everyone to define a different term.
Personification- giving human qualities to objects or animals
ReplyDeleteExample- justice is blind and the city never sleeps
-Avengers
Oxymoron- A figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms. Example- clearly confused. -Avengers
ReplyDeleteGood ones. Avengers are up 2-0.
ReplyDeleteMetaphor- figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using like or as
ReplyDeleteExample- life is a journey
- The Justice League
Imagery - Visually descriptive or figurative language.
ReplyDeleteExample - She was like a breath of fresh air.
-Avengers
Onomatopoeia- words that sound like the things they are describing. Ex: Buzz, crash -Justice League
ReplyDeletehyperbole-boldly exaggerated statement. ex: She's going to kill me if I don't clean my room --Avengers
ReplyDeleteForeahadow -to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure
ReplyDeleteex: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
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alliteration: repition of constant sounds in words that are close together. Ex: She seem shy, so she sang a song.- Justice League
ReplyDeleteCliche: a trite or overused expression
ReplyDeleteExample: time will tell
-Avengers
Denotation - the dictionary meaning of a word EXAMPLE) dictionary: a book, optical disc, mobile device, or online lexical resource (such as Dictionary.com) containing a selection of the words of a language, giving information about their meanings, pronunciations, etymologies, inflected forms, derived forms, etc., expressed in either the same or another language; lexicon; glossary. Print dictionaries of various sizes, ranging from small pocket dictionaries to multivolume books, usually sort entries alphabetically, as do typical CD or DVD dictionary applications, allowing one to browse through the terms in sequence. --AVENGERS
ReplyDeleteimagery- the use of words to thoroughly provide a vivid image of what is being described. The cold night, with a deep purple sky, surrounding a full, white moon, made my skin turn to ice and shiver.
ReplyDeleteoh yeah, -avengers
ReplyDeleteAlliteration-the repetition of the same consonant sounds in a sequence of words, usually at the beginnimg of a word or stressed syllable.
ReplyDeleteExample- Alice's aunt ate apples and acorns around August.
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Diction- a writer's choice of words, phrases, sentence structures, and figurative language
ReplyDeleteEx: the repetition of the same line at the end of each stanza in a poem
An I'm on the avengers team!
ReplyDeleteIrony: contradictory statements or situations that reveal a reality different from what appears to be true.
ReplyDeleteIt was tragic to see the old fire house up in flames last night.
-Avengers
Irony - the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning.
ReplyDeleteExample - He posted a video on Facebook about how boring and useless Facebook really is.
Irony - the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning.
ReplyDeleteExample - He posted a video on Facebook about how boring and useless Facebook really is.
- avengers
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