Literary Terms

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Play with a partner. Guess a letter: if it is in the word, write it in the blanks; if not, draw the next part of the hangman.

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1.

Hint: A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds

2.

Hint: The ability to form mental ___ of things or events

3.

Hint: Passing reference or indirect mention

4.

Hint: A mental position from which things are ___

5.

Hint: A secret scheme to do something

6.

Hint: A statement that contradicts itself

7.
8.

Hint: A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally

9.

Hint: Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse