A Sense of Place Literary Terms Anthropomorphism Giving

A Sense of Place Literary Terms

Anthropomorphism • Giving human characteristics or behaviors to a god, animal, or object

Imagery • Words that paint a picture

Bias • Prejudice

Diction • The choice and use of words and phrases • How can we use diction to make this sound better? • The dinosaur was big and scary

Allusion • A reference in the text to a historic/famous person, place, or thing in history, or to another work of literature

Paradox • A statement that contradicts itself, yet may be true

couplets • Two line verse that usually rhyme I like to play with my cat He likes to get in a hat.

Lyric Poetry • Poetry that usually rhymes and expresses emotion I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and fro Kept treading - till it seemed That Sense was breaking through -And when they all were seated, A Service, like a Drum Kept beating - till I thought My Mind was going numb -

Tone • The author’s voice/attitude about their subject “There was a steaming mist in all the hollows, and it had roamed in its forlornness up the hill, like an evil spirit, seeking rest and finding none. A clammy and intensely cold mist, it made its slow way through the air in ripples that visibly followed and overspread one another, as the waves of an unwholesome sea might do. It was dense enough to shut out everything from the light of the coach-lamps but these its own workings, and a few yards of road; and the reek of the labouring horses steamed into it, as if they had made it all.

Metaphor • Direct comparison

Extended Metaphor • A metaphor that continues throughout a series of sentences.

Simile • Comparison using like or as

Inversion • Reversal of the usual order of words

Analogy • Comparison based on similarities