What is personification?

Giving human characteristics to non-human things.

The same beginning sound repeated.

What's the meaning of this personification? "The camera loves me!"

Photos of me are always really good.

Photography is one of my hobbies.I

Give an example of personification.

I am so hungry I could eat a horse.

Which of these is a hyperbole?

I have a million things to do today.

No poet captures the human hearts like Neruda.

Which of these is a hyperbole?

She can hear a pin drop a mile away.

My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed every morning.

Watching the show was like watching grass grow.

Time flies when you're having fun.

I am so thirsty that my throat is as dry as a bone.

To paint a picture for the reader.

The cactus saluted those who drove past.

Identify the metaphor.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

The full moon peeped through partial clouds.

The skyscraper was so tall that it seemed to kiss the sky.

Simile, Metaphor, Personification, and Hyperbole

Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, Personification, and Alliteration

Figures of speech definitions and examples on simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, apostrophe, irony, paradox, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, idiom, alliteration, allusion

Create four informational passages using 1. Simile · 2. Metaphor · 3. Hyperbole · 4. Personification · 5. Idioms · 6. Onomatopoeia 7. Alliteration 8. Foreshadowing 9. theme 10. create 10 multiple choice questions RI8.1 vocabulary questions, inference questions and textual evidence questions based on the passage with directions

Sure! Here's a solid list of **AP English Literature vocabulary**—terms that often come up in class, essays, and the AP exam. I'll break it down into categories to make it easier to study. --- ### 📚 **Literary Devices & Techniques** 1. **Alliteration** – Repetition of initial consonant sounds 2. **Allusion** – A reference to another text, event, or figure 3. **Anaphora** – Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses 4. **Antithesis** – Contrast of ideas in a balanced or parallel construction 5. **Apostrophe** – Addressing someone absent, dead, or nonhuman as if present and able to respond 6. **Assonance** – Repetition of vowel sounds within nearby words 7. **Asyndeton** – Omission of conjunctions between parts of a sentence 8. **Consonance** – Repetition of consonant sounds, often at the end of words 9. **Diction** – Word choice (formal, informal, colloquial, etc.) 10. **Enjambment** – Continuation of a sentence without pause beyond the end of a line in poetry --- ### 🧠 **Figurative Language** 1. **Hyperbole** – Extreme exaggeration 2. **Imagery** – Descriptive language that appeals to the senses 3. **Irony** - *Verbal*: Saying the opposite of what’s meant - *Situational*: When the outcome is the opposite of what's expected - *Dramatic*: Audience knows something characters don’t 4. **Metaphor** – A direct comparison without using "like" or "as" 5. **Metonymy** – Substituting the name of one thing with something closely related (e.g. "The crown" for royalty) 6. **Synecdoche** – A part representing the whole (e.g. "All hands on deck") 7. **Personification** – Giving human traits to nonhuman things 8. **Simile** – A comparison using "like" or "as" 9. **Symbol** – An object, character, or color that represents something beyond itself --- ### ✍️ **Poetic & Rhetorical Terms** 1. **Caesura** – A pause in a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation 2. **Couplet** – Two lines of poetry that usually rhyme 3. **Iambic Pentameter** – A line with five iambs (unstressed-stressed syllables) 4. **Blank Verse** – Unrhymed iambic pentameter 5. **Free Verse** – Poetry with no fixed meter or rhyme 6. **Elegy** – A mournful poem, often for the dead 7. **Ode** – A lyric poem expressing emotion, often in honor of something 8. **Sonnet** – A 14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme (Shakespearean or Petrarchan) --- ### 📖 **Narrative & Structure Terms** 1. **Tone** – The author's attitude toward the subject 2. **Mood** – The feeling or atmosphere the reader experiences 3. **Theme** – The central idea or message in a work 4. **Motif** – A recurring element that has symbolic significance 5. **Foil** – A character who contrasts with another character to highlight traits 6. **Foreshadowing** – Clues or hints about what will happen later 7. **Juxtaposition** – Placing two elements side by side to present a contrast 8. **Point of View** – Perspective from which the story is told (1st, 2nd, 3rd person) 9. **Stream of Consciousness** – Narrative style that mimics thoughts and feelings 10. **Frame Narrative** – A story within a story --- Want me to make flashcards, a quiz, or a PDF study guide with these? Or need help using them in a literary analysis essay?

Spanish Version RTI 8/26/25 Context clues determine the meaning of the unknown word, similes, and metaphors, hyperboles, personification

Figures of speech(simile, metaphor and personification)

. Identify the figures of speech used in the sentence (Simile, Metaphor, and Personification).

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