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66thth Grade Grade
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Alliteration• The repetition of initial consonant sounds• Writers use alliteration to create musical
effects and to draw attention to certain words or ideas.
Laughing Lions Turtle Taxi
Dandy Dolphins
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Onomatopoeia• The use of words whose sound
suggests their meaning.
BangHissThudPow
Thwack
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Mood• The feeling created in the reader by a
literary work or passage• Writers use many devices to create
mood, including images, dialogue, setting, and plot.
What is the mood in “Why Dogs are Tame”?
Happy
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Idiom• An expression of language that
means something different from what it appears to mean.
He has his head in the clouds.You drive me up a wall.
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Imagery• Language that stresses or
emphasizes sense impressions that help the reader see, hear, feel, smell, and taste things described in the literary work.
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Ballad• A short poem of songlike quality and usually has a
refrain.
Lord Randal
"O where ha you been, Lord Randal, my son?And where ha you been, my handsome young man?""I ha been at the greenwood; mother, mak my bed soon,For I'm wearied wi hunting, and fain wad lie down."
"An wha met ye there, Lord Randal, my son?And wha met ye there, my handsome young man?""O I met wi my true-love; mother, mak my bed soon,For I'm wearied wi huntin, and fain wad lie down."
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Epic Poetry• Lengthy narrative poem usually
about the deeds of a hero.
Beowulf
The Iliad and The Odyssey
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Hyperbole• Use of over exaggerated words,
ideas and comparisons to emphasize an idea.
When I lost my new scarf at Mardi Gras, I almost died!
I am so hungry I could eat a horse.
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Fable• A short story that teaches a moral
about human nature.
“The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg”
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Folktales• A story with no known author that
originally was passed on from one generation to another by word of mouth.
He LionBruh Bear
Bruh Rabbit
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Legends• Stories set in the past that are
based on a real-life hero and his/her mighty deeds.
“The Legend of John Henry”“Paul Bunyan”
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Myths• Stories involving gods, goddesses,
and supernatural heroes.
“Perseus”
“Wings”
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Odes• Lyrical poems written to the praise
of a person, animal, or thing.
“Ode to an Artichoke”
“Ode to Mi Gato”