Reading And Literature Flashcards
Allegory
The story represent other people
Using horses or animals to represent people
Alliteration
The repetition of an initial consonant
Peter piper picked a pack of pickled peppers
Anthropomorphism
Human qualities to non human things or entity’s
Beauty and the beast
Connotation
Secondary meaning the word represents
Couplet
Two successive poetic lines that form a single unit because they rhyme
Essay
Brief work that gets across a point of view to persuade the reader
Figures of speech
Not to be taken literally
Euphemism
Figure of speech in which a term is substituted that may be offensive or cause distress
Hyperbole
Drastic overstatement or understatement
“You are the worst person ever”
Metaphor
Something is talked about like it’s something else
It felt like a thousand daggers splitting my head
Mixed metaphor
Two or more unrelated metaphors are combined
Onomatopoeia
Buzz
Twang
Jiiii
Simile
Compares two different things
The trees are like a maze