Literary Terms Project
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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Hyperbole: Extreme Exaggeration.
Excerpt: "The garabage reached across the state, from New York the the Golden Gate."
It exaggerates how long the garbage was.
Pg. 609
Title: Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would not Take the Garbage Out.
Photo by chrstphre
Idiom: Saying close to a language but not the real meaning.
Excerpt: "I apologize for being late", "she said, sounding a little out of breath."
The real meaning means difficult of breathing out, it sounds like she was really not breathing.
Pg. 198
Title: Zebra
Photo by id-iom
Imagery: Writing that you can picture in your head.
Excerpt: "Inspite of the fact that he was a small man, and though the tie was perhaps a shade vivid,"
You can picture the little man with a tie
Pg. 458
Title: One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts.
Photo by mckaysavage
Irony: Contrast between expectations and reality.
Excerpt: "Tell me stories of things like this, And, boy, will I be bored!"
Its telling about all the stories of fairy tales then it says at the end that the'll be bored.
Pg. 520
Title: Song for an April Dusk
Photo by Shirin Winiger
Metaphor: A comparison between two things that are dissimilar.
Excerpt: "they were targets all but wrapped in red ribbons, cream puffs."
The cars are like tagets and cream puffs but there really not.
Pg.126
Title: An American Childhood
Photo by .michael.newman.
Mood: Atmosphere or feelings in a story.
Excerpt: "into the bright morning with a feeling that all was well with the world on this best of all days."
The mood is happy, cheerful, and bright.
Pg.458
Title: One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts
Photo by Stuck in Customs
Personification: Something non-human is given human qualities.
Excerpt: "The red-brick ranch house that belonged to Mr. Morgan, and the white clap board two story-house in which Ms. English lived and the other homes on the street, with their columed front porches and their back patios, and the tall oaks all stood curiously still in the warm golden light of the mid-morning sun."
Trees cannot be curious because they are not human.
Pg.195
Title: Zebra
Photo by Rexness
Setting: where and when the story takes place.
Excerpt: "Several trails merged into ours, it seemed as if all the paths out of Cambodia were converging on this one spot on the Thai border."
It was in Cambodia and when they were on a trail. It tells when and where.
Pg.29
Title: The Clay Marble
Photo by archer10 (Dennis)
Simile: Comparing two things using like or as.
Excerpt: "The coppersmith is a bird who makes the noise exactly like the beating of a little hammer on a copper-pot."
It uses the work "like" which is comparing two things.
Pg.92
Title: Rikki-tikki-tavi
Photo by ukslim
Theme: Message/Idea conveyed in a story.
Excerpt: "When you kindly spsred my life," said the mouse,"you laughed at the idea that one day I would repay you."
It says that people keep there promises.
So the theme was loyalty/Trust.
Pg.317
Title: The Lion and the Mouse
Photo by Wednesday Elf - Mountainside Crochet
