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Handbook of Literary Terms

Handbook of Literary Terms. 6 th Grade Reading By: Angela Jensen. Simile. Definition:. Example:. “ Her eyes are like the blue sky”. A comparison between two unlike things using a word such as like, as, than, or resembles. Personification. Definition:. Example:.

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Handbook of Literary Terms

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  1. Handbook of Literary Terms 6th Grade Reading By: Angela Jensen

  2. Simile Definition: Example: “ Her eyes are like the blue sky” • A comparison between two unlike things using a word such as like, as, than, or resembles.

  3. Personification Definition: Example: “The leaves danced along the sidewalk.” • A special kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman or nonliving thing or quality is talked about as if it were human or alive.

  4. Stanza Definition: Example: A stanza in a poem is something like a paragraph in prose; it often expresses a unit of thought. • In a poem, a group of lines that form a unit. Stanza 1 Stanza 2 Stanza 3

  5. Symbol Definition: Example: The skull and crossbones, is a symbol of danger. The dove is a symbol of peace. And the red rose stands for true love. • A person, a place, a thing, or an event that has its own meaning and stands for something beyond itself as well.

  6. Theme Definition: Example: A theme has to be expressed in a full sentence. A work can have more than one theme. • A truth about life revealed in a work of literature.

  7. Alliteration Definition: Example: “Busy as a bee!” “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers!” • The repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds in words that are close together.

  8. Dialect Definition: Example: Ole Bein Em • A way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or of a particular group of people.

  9. Imagery Definition: Example: The Storm In a fury and terror The tempest broke, It tore up the pine And shattered the oak, Yet the hummingbird hovered Within the hour Sipping clear rain From a trumpet flower. • Language that appeals to the senses-sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell.

  10. Metaphor Definition: Example: “He’s such a bear today!” “He is behaving like a bear. • A comparison between two unlike things in which one thing becomes another thing. My Brother on a crabby day.

  11. Onomatopoeia Definition: Example: Boom Bang Sniffle Rumble Hush Ding Snort • The use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning.

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