Literary Terms from Word Search

Rhyme
repetition of ending sounds of words

Simile
comparison using the words “like” or “as”

Hyperbole
the use of exagerration

Personification
animals, ideas or inanimate objects are given human characteristics

Setting
time and place in a story

Symbol
a word or object that stands for another word or object

Theme
a common thread or repeated idea in a piece of writing

Metaphor
a direct comparison between two things

Pun
a play on words

Alliteration
the repitition of beginning sounds of words

Dialogue
a conversation between characters

Flashback
past events are presented during current events

Irony
a person or situation is not as it would seem

Idiom
a word or phrase not to be taken literally

Point of View
the way that a story is communicated to the reader

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Literary Terms from Word Search
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