G8 Literary Terms

an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity: "All the world's a stage" "The world is your oyster"

when you use words that have the same sound at the beginning, like "Stellar students synthesize sweet sentences."

An expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up -- can not be translated. For example, "kick the bucket" means "to die."

Jumbo shrimp? Open secret? Use oxymoron to refer to a word or phrase that contradicts itself, usually to create some rhetorical effect.

the emotions that a text evokes from the reader. Mood words are often the same as emotion words.

when something happens that's the complete opposite of what you expected

a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines

a comparison between two fundamentally different things that usually uses the words like or as: "His voice was smooth, like butter in a warm pan."

extravagant exaggeration

a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity

when the audience knows something that the characters don’t

a comparison between two fundamentally different things that usually uses the words like or as