1. We know our
literary terms
And we are
publishing our
work

2. The assignment
• Define the underlined literary term and
then follow the activity directions to
give an example of the literary term.
• 1.) Using your shoulder partner create
PowerPoint slides and define each of
these terms on a slide. You will need to
create at least 2 slides per term – one
with the definition and one with the
activity.
• 2.) Underline the term and number
them.
• 3.) EACH OF YOU will turn upload your
slides to Schoology by the end of class
for a participation grade.

3. • Alliteration
– Example: The Cute Cuddly Kitten hid in the pantry.
– Activity: Describe two family members using their first name and
alliteration. (Tiny Terrible Tina)
• Allusion
– Example: I compared myself to Toni Braxton, thought I would never
catch my breath.
– Activity: Describe your school using an allusion.
• Figurative Language
– Example: Donny was so angry flames of fire came out of his mouth.
– Activity: Write two sentences about your English class using figurative
language.
• Metaphor
– Example: Life is a broken winged bird that can not fly.
– Activity: Write a metaphor for love.
• Extended Metaphor
– Example: See Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem “Sympathy”
– Activity: Describe your personality using an extended metaphor

4. • Onomatopoeia
– Example: The bacon sizzled in the pan.
– Activity: Write two sentences that use Onomatopoeia.
• Personification
– Example: When I sat down, the chair wrapped its arms around me
comfortingly.
– Activity: Describe your house using personification.
• Rhyme
– Example: Now I lay me down to sleep. / I pray the Lord my soul to
keep.
– Activity: Write a 3 line rhyme about your favorite restaurant.
• Repetition
– Example: Martin Luther King’s speech “I Have a Dream”
– Activity: Use repetition to sell your favorite soft drink.
• Simile
– Example: Float like a butterfly sting like a bee.
– Activity: Use a simile to describe one of your parents.

5. Alliteration
• the commencement of tw
o or more words of a wor
d group with the same let
• Aunt Pig likes pink and
ter
purple purses!
Ty Thomas

6. Allusion
• West Jefferson
• An is the city of
death, because
expression of the new
designed to principal the
call kids think the
something to principal will kill
them of all the
mind without rules.
mentioning it In the poem, The
explicitly; an City of Walls by
Ty Thomas

7. Figurative Language
• language that• My English
class talk so
contains or u much, I really
ses figures of thought they
speech, espe all had motor
mouths.
cially • My English
metaphors. teacher gives
Ty Thomas so much work

8. Figurative Language
Figurative Languages is
language that uses figures of
speech, especially metaphors
EUGENEE’

9. Bacon
They serve bacon so much at school
it is coming out of the students ears!!
Bursting into
Flames
The classroom is so hot I
thought it was going to burst
into flames!!
EUGENEE’

10. 5. Onomatopoeia
The formation of a word from a
sound associated with what is
named
By: Evan & Octavia

11. Onomatopoeia
splish-splash down When we were walking
the windows of my to the golf course , ping a
school golf ball had hit one of
whoosh, passing the tea’s.
breeze
When I woke up this
morning I heard the
Octavia C. birds chirping outside
my widow.
 Evan S.

12. Personification
• an embodiment or perfect
example of something

13. Personification
• When I got home from out the
cold air the warm air inside
wrapped around me .

14. DEFINITION EXAMPLE
 The simple repeating  Buy coke its good
of a word, within a
sentence or a poetical
coke buy coke.
line, with no particular
placement of the
words, in order to
provide emphasis.
Jose and Jimmy

15. DEFINITION EXAMPLE
 A figure of My little brother
speech comparing is as good as a
two unlike things dove.
that is often
introduced
by like or as
Jose and Jimmy

16. The act or process
or an instance of
repeating or being
repeated

17. Josh
 Drink root beer it’s the best.
 Drink root beer makes people happy.
 Drink root beer it’s a reasonable price.
 Drink root beer never lets you down.