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Literal Language
Language that means exactly what it says.
Figurative Language
When different or extra meaning is given to words or phrases. Figurative language includes metaphors, similes, allegories etc.
Simile
Figurative language used to compare two unlike things by using the words “like” or “as.” It says something is “like” something else, or is “as” something else.
Metaphor
A comparison of two unlike things. It says something is something else.
Personification
Figurative Language that gives human abilities or characteristics to non-human things.
Onomatopoeia
Words created to represent sounds.
Alliteration
The repetition of the similar sounds at the beginning of words in close relationship to each other.
Connotation
The emotional association associated with some words. While words may share a similar definition (denotation) they often vary in their emotional association (connotation).
Denotation
The dictionary definition of words.
Theme
The over-arching idea, message, moral or life-lesson that connects, and runs through all parts of the story.
Allusion
A reference in a work of literature to a character, place, or situation from another work of literature, music, art, or history.
Symbol/Symbolism
. An object, person, place, or experience that represents something else. When a concrete noun represents an abstract noun.
Allegory
A story with two levels of meaning. A literal one and a symbolic one (parables, fables etc.).
The characters, settings and events all symbolically represent something else.
Characterization
The method an author uses to reveal a character’s personality. The author shows the reader what a character is like, instead of telling them directly.
Foreshadowing
An author’s use of clues that hint at events that will occur later in the plot.
Hyperbole
An intentional exaggeration or overstatement for effect or emphasis.
Understatement
An intentional down playing of the truth for effect or emphasis.
Irony
The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning. 2.When the last thing you would expect to happen happens.
Imagery
When an author paints pictures or sensations in the mind of the reader by using details that appeal to the five senses.
Mood
The feeling a created in the reader through the writer's use of sensory details.