KNOW YOUR LITERARY TERMS!

1. KNOW YOUR LITERARY TERMS!

2. Materials and Resources: • Writing paper • Dictionaries and thesauruses • Crayons, markers, or colored pencils • Pencils and erasers • Highlighters

3. Key Vocabulary or Terminology: • Simile • Metaphor • Hyperbole • Alliteration • Onomatopoeia • Personification

4. Key Vocabulary or Terminology: • Simile: • A comparison between two unlike things, using “like” or “as”

5. Key Vocabulary or Terminology: • Simile • Example: • The horse ate so much hay it was as large as a house. • Your eyes sparkle like the sun.

6. Key Vocabulary or Terminology: • Metaphor: • A comparison between two unlike things, not using “like” or “as”

7. Key Vocabulary or Terminology: • Metaphor • Example: • “It is East, and Juliet is the sun.” ~Romeo and Juliet • My stepdad is such an evil ogre.

8. Key Vocabulary or Terminology: • Hyperbole: • A figure of speech involving great exaggeration.

9. Key Vocabulary or Terminology: • Hyperbole • Example: • You’ll have so much fun your head will explode! • I am so bored I could just die.

10. Key Vocabulary or Terminology: • Alliteration: • The repetition of consonant or vowel sounds at the beginning of words or within words; ex. Peter Piper

11. Key Vocabulary or Terminology: • Alliteration • Example: • Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. • She sells seashells by the seashore.

12. Key Vocabulary or Terminology: • Onomatopoeia: • Use of a word or words whose sound imitates the sound of the thing spoken about.

13. Key Vocabulary or Terminology: • Onomatopoeia • Example: • The door of the old mansion slowly creaked open. • My cat meowed pathetically when I left for work this morning.

14. Key Vocabulary or Terminology: • Personification: • A figure of speech which gives human qualities to an object, animal, an idea or a place.

15. Key Vocabulary or Terminology: • Personification • Example: • The enormous waves beckoned the surfers menacingly. • My ringing cell phone danced across the table.

16. Teaching Sequence • Have students highlight the literary terms used in each selection • Discuss students’ responses as a class; discuss in length each term, how it is used and what it brings to the piece of literature • Distribute literary terms worksheet and allow students ten minutes to complete independently; go over answers as a class

17. Comprehension Evaluation: • Four-Square Activity: • The teacher will be able to know if a student understands the terms by completion of the Vocabulary Four-Square. • Students will pick two literary terms and, for each, complete the Four-Square using the term’s name, definition, sentence using it, and an accompanying picture.

18. Vocabulary Four-Square