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Literary Terms. 6 th Grade. Alliteration. The repetition of initial consonant sounds Writers use alliteration to create musical effects and to draw attention to certain words or ideas. Laughing Lions Turtle Taxi Dandy Dolphins. Onomatopoeia.
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Literary Terms 6th Grade
Alliteration • The repetition of initial consonant sounds • Writers use alliteration to create musical effects and to draw attention to certain words or ideas. Laughing Lions Turtle Taxi Dandy Dolphins
Onomatopoeia • The use of words whose sound suggests their meaning. Bang Hiss Thud Pow Thwack
Mood • The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage • Writers use many devices to create mood, including images, dialogue, setting, and plot. What is the mood in “Why Dogs are Tame”? Happy
Idiom • An expression of language that means something different from what it appears to mean. He has his head in the clouds. You drive me up a wall.
Imagery • Language that stresses or emphasizes sense impressions that help the reader see, hear, feel, smell, and taste things described in the literary work.
Ballad • A short poem of songlike quality and usually has a refrain. Lord Randal "O where ha you been, Lord Randal, my son?And where ha you been, my handsome young man?""I ha been at the greenwood; mother, mak my bed soon,For I'm wearied wi hunting, and fain wad lie down." "An wha met ye there, Lord Randal, my son?And wha met ye there, my handsome young man?""O I met wi my true-love; mother, mak my bed soon,For I'm wearied wi huntin, and fain wad lie down."
Epic Poetry • Lengthy narrative poem usually about the deeds of a hero. Beowulf The Iliad and The Odyssey
Hyperbole • Use of over exaggerated words, ideas and comparisons to emphasize an idea. When I lost my new scarf at Mardi Gras, I almost died! I am so hungry I could eat a horse.
Fable • A short story that teaches a moral about human nature. “The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg”
Folktales • A story with no known author that originally was passed on from one generation to another by word of mouth. He Lion Bruh Bear Bruh Rabbit
Legends • Stories set in the past that are based on a real-life hero and his/her mighty deeds. “The Legend of John Henry” “Paul Bunyan”
Myths • Stories involving gods, goddesses, and supernatural heroes. “Perseus” “Wings”
Odes • Lyrical poems written to the praise of a person, animal, or thing. “Ode to an Artichoke” “Ode to Mi Gato”