Transcript literary terms presentation

Adage
A traditional saying;
proverb. Often symbolic.
You can lead a horse to
water but you can’t make it
drink.
Aphorism
A short statement
observing a general truth.
Keep your friends close;
your enemies, closer.
Axiom
A self-evident truth that
requires no proof.
What goes up must come
down.
Alliteration
The repetition of sound at
the beginning of (near)
consecutive words.
Nancy’s nana said, “No.”
Allusion
A reference to a historical,
literary or pop-cultural
person or event, for the
purpose of comparison.
When my band hits the big
time we’ll make SnoopDogg money.
Analogy
A comparison between two
things based on a similarity
they share.
The heart is like a water
pump, drawing in and
pushing out fluid.
Flashback
A reference to something
that happened earlier in a
story’s timeline.
Jack stopped talking. The
words she said when they’d
first met repeated in his
mind.
Foreshadowing
The implying of future
events in a story.
Cheerfully, she set the
wedding day for the
Saturday after Jim was set
to return home from war.
Hyperbole
Extreme exaggeration.
Hatred burned like a star
within the furnace of his
mind.
Irony (Situational)
When the opposite of what
should be expected occurs
in a story.
Brian and Lucy, who
argued all through high
school, have been happily
married for fifty years.
Irony (Dramatic)
When the audience knows
something the characters
don’t.
Think of the countdown
timer on a bomb.
Irony (Verbal)
When what is said is not
what is meant (sarcasm,
understatement, or
overstatement).
He looked at her muddy
dress and shoes and said,
“Nice outfit.”
Metaphor
A figurative comparison
between dissimilar things
not using like or as.
She’s a gladiator on the
tennis court.
Onomatopoeia
Auditory imagery that can
only be defined by making
the sound.
His head hit the steering
wheel – Bam! – because he
wasn’t wearing his
seatbelt.
Oxymoron
A pair of self-contradicting
words.
That order of jumbo shrimp
you bought is pretty ugly.
Paradox
A statement that appears
to contradict itself, but is
actually true.
The harder you try to hold
on to someone, the easier
it is for them to run away.
Personification
Giving human attributes to
non-human things.
The dog greeted me with a
snarling growl.
Simile
A figurative comparison
between dissimilar things
using like or as.
His tears flowed like the
Mississippi River.