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Literary Terms

Literary Terms. August 19, 2011. Lit. Terms. Tone -is the writer’s attitude toward his or her subjects, characters, or audience. Mood -the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage.

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Literary Terms

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  1. Literary Terms August 19, 2011

  2. Lit. Terms • Tone-is the writer’s attitude toward his or her subjects, characters, or audience. • Mood-the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage.

  3. Apostrophe-a figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent person or a personified quality, object, or idea.

  4. Simile-a comparison between two unlike things using like or as. • A new day is like a new sheet of paper. • Metaphor-a direct comparison between two unlike things. • Life is a beach, I’m just playing in the sand.-Lil Wayne • Extended metaphor-the metaphor develops beyond one single sentence or phrase. An entire story or poem can be an extended metaphor. (For example, in Usher Raymond’s song, Moving Mountains, his journey to climb a mountain is a metaphor for the struggles in his relationship).

  5. Paradox-a contradictory statement that nonetheless may be true. • Everybody dies, but not everybody lives. -Nicki Minaj

  6. Rhyme Scheme • Rhyme scheme-a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem. With innocent wide penguin eyes, three (a) Large fledgling mocking-birds below (b) The willow tree (a) Stand in a row (b) The rhyme scheme for this stanza is abab.

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