1. Literary Terms Defined
Burton’s 4th period Scholars
Provide
Examples

2. My scholars serve as
teachers
The following literary terms were defined and
presented to the class
• alliteration • paradox
• apostrophe • parallel structure
• comparison-contrast • parallel syntax
• descriptive • persuasive
• ellipsis • repetition
• euphemism • rhetorical fragment
• expository • rhetorical question
• inverted word order • rhyme
• logical appeal • simile
• metaphor • simple sentence
• mood • synecdoche
• narrative • tone

3. Repetition
The recurrence of an action or
event
By Mia H.

4. Repetition Example 1:
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;
All the King's horses and all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again
By Mia H.

5. Repetition Example 2:
WHEN I heard the learn’d astronomer;
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in
columns before me;
When I was shown the charts and the
diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;
When I, sitting, heard the astronomer...
By Mia H.

7. Her bathroom is a sewer.
Ahlam Ayyad

8. The weather was a monster.
Ahlam Ayyad

9. apostrophe
A figure of speech in which
some absent or nonexistent
person or thing is addressed
as if present and capable of
understanding.
Mariah Theodore

10. apostrophe
Example #1
"God help me!"
Mariah Theodore

11. apostrophe
Example #2
"O stranger of the future!
O inconceivable being!
whatever the shape of your house,
however you scoot from place to place,
no matter how strange and colorless the clothes
you may wear,
I bet nobody likes a wet dog either.
I bet everyone in your pub,
even the children, pushes her away."
from "To a Stranger Born in Some Distant Country
Hundreds of Years from Now' by Billy Collins.
Mariah Theodore

12.  A paradox is and argument that
produces an inconsistency, typically
within logic or common sense.
Themes in paradoxes include self-
reference, infinite regress, circular
definitions, and confusion between
different levels of abstraction.

13.  "It was the best of times, it was the worst of
times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age
of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was
the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of
Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the
spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we
had everything before us, we had nothing
before us, we were all going direct to Heaven,
we were all going direct the other way”
By
Abraham
Tsegaye

14.  Suppose you build a time machine, go back in time
to find your grandmother when she was three
years old, and then drown her in the bathtub.
So she never grows up, and never has any kids.
Therefore, one of your parents was never born.
Therefore, YOU were never born.
Therefore, you never traveled back in time and
killed your infant grandma.
So she DID grow up and have kids.
Therefore, your parent WAS born.
Therefore, YOU were born!
Therefore, you traveled back in time and killed
your infant grandma.
Ad infinitum. Abraham
Tsegaye

15. Ellipsis
Definition:
Noun
The omission from speech or writing of a word
or words that are superfluous or be understood
from contextual clues.
A set of dots indicating such an omission.
Ahmad Ordu
Per. 4
1/14/13

16. Example of Ellipsis
• The man looked above . . . all he could see
were three black silhouettes against the bright
blue sky. When the man looked above he
couldn't quite believe what he saw . . . .
Ahmad Ordu
Per. 4
1/14/13

17. Another Example of Ellipsis
• An ellipsis is also a rhetorical device in literature
(in plain English, another way to write a unique
sentence). Its definition is "The deliberate
ommission of a word or words readily implied by
context."
Examples:
My dreams had no end that night; my delight no
limit.
In the anime world, Naruto is a hero; Goku, a
legend.
I love coffee; my spouse, soda.
Ahmad Ordu
Per. 4
1/14/13

18. EUPHEMISM
A euphemism is a generally innocuous
word, name, or phrase that replaces an
offensive or suggestive one

19. EXAMPLES
Passed away instead of died
Correctional facility instead of jail
Departed instead of died
Differently-abled instead of handicapped or
disabled
Fell off the back of a truck instead of stolen
Ethnic cleansing instead of genocide

20. EXAMPLES….2
Turn a trick instead of engage in prostitution
Negative patient outcome instead of dead
Relocation Center instead of prison camp
Collateral damage instead of accidental deaths
Letting someone go instead of firing someone
Put to sleep instead of euthanize
Pregnancy termination instead of abortion
On the streets instead of homeless

21. Expository
 Expository writing is a type of writing where the purpose is
to inform, describe, explain, or define the author's subject to
the reader.
-Kristiana C.

22. Example #1
 Example of expository is if a writer explains the purpose of
something , the meaning of it , and / or to explain
something.
- Kristiana C.

23. Example #2
 I feel as though Martin Luther Kings speech was a expository
passage. He was explaining how he wanted the future to be.
He explained how his thoughts , feelings, and emotions. Mr.
King was a role model to all , and he was very inspiring to all
generations following him.
-Kristiana C.

24. An alliteration is the occurrence of the
same letter or sound at the beginning of
adjacent or closely connected words.
By: Lindsey Aguilar

25.  Peter piper picked a peck of pickled
peppers. A peck of pickled peppers
peter piper picked. If peter piper picked
a peck of pickled peppers, how many
pickled peppers did peter piper pick?
By: Lindsey Aguilar

26. Through three cheese trees three free fleas
flew. While these fleas flew, freezy breeze
blew. Freezy breeze made these three
trees freeze. Freezy trees made these
trees’ cheese freeze. That’s what made
these three free fleas sneeze.
By: Lindsey Aguilar

27. Rhetorical Fragment
Rhetorical fragments are incomplete sentences
that author’s use while writing to persuade the
reader, or to evoke some emotional response
from the reader's perspective.
By: Mallorie Fadaol

28. Rhetorical Fragment -
• LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION!
are three examples of rhetorical fragment
By Mallorie Fadaol

29. Rhetorical Fragment – Stephenie Meyer
• “As we walked, I felt myself settling into
another version of myself, the self I had been
with Jacob. A little younger, a little less
responsible. Someone who might, on
occasion, do something really stupid for no
good reason.” Eclipse
By Mallorie Fadaol

30. Parallel syntax
repetition of. words, phrases, and clauses, used
in a concise manner, to emphasize a point.
andrew dove

31. Example 1
• I came, I saw, I conquered
andrew dove

32. Example 2
• Down, down, down. Would the fall never end?
andrewdove

34. For example, the question "Can't you do
anything right?" is asked not to gain
information about the ability of the
person being spoken to, but rather to
insinuate that the person always fails.

35. "If your friend jumped off the bridge would
you do it too?“ is an example of a
rhetorical question because you are not
meant to answer the questions it is just
asked for you to come to a realization
that you are not thinking for yourself..

36. RHYME
Rhyme is the correspondence of words
between or the endings of words.
Rhyme is most often used at the end of
lines.
Malik Robinson

37. Rhyme Example #1
Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost.
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Malik Robinson

38. Rhyme Example #2
The Rose Family by Robert Frost.
The rose is a rose,
And was always a rose.
But now the theory goes
That the apple's a rose,
And the pear is, and so's
The plum, I suppose.
The dear only knows
What will next prove a rose.
You, of course, are a rose
But were always a rose.
Malik Robinson

39. having the quality of describing;
characterized by description:
Ri’chan Mulder

40.  "Ifany personal description of me is thought
desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six
feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh,
weighing, on an average, one hundred and
eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse
black hair, and gray eyes--no other marks or
brands recollected."
(Abraham Lincoln, Letter to Jesse W. Fell,
1859)
Ri’chan Mulder

41.  The sleeping water reflected the evening sky.
The angels must have spilled their jam,
because the sunset was a mixture of grape
with strawberry, apricot and raspberry,
clumps of blueberry, and a little melted
butter.
(By Brenda B. Covert)
Ri’chan Mulder

42. A piece of writing in which the writer
uses words to convince the reader of
his/her view regarding an issue.
By Stephanie

43. Victoria wrote an essay to
convince her class to sign a
petition against smoking.
By Stephanie

44. The president made many
promises in his speech to
persuade people to vote for
him.
By Stephanie

45. By: Tan Nguyen

46. Example of Mood
The mood that was portrayed in A
Haunted House was funny,
suspenseful, scary and exciting.

47. Example of Mood
The mood that was portrayed in Harry
Potter and the Order Of The Phoenix is
serious, dramatic, and scary.

48. Victoria Tu
Group 3 4th period
January 14, 2013
Narrative (writing purpose):
any account that presents connected
events and may be categorized into many
categories. A narrative is usually
something that the actual writer
experienced and is telling the story.

49. Examples of Narratives
• Rosa writes an essay telling her teacher about her summer
vacation.
• This is an example of a narrative because Rosa is telling her
audience the experience of her summer vacation.
By: Victoria Tu

50. Example of Narratives
• Bobby went into the room and the frigid cold wind pushed
against his face and suddenly his skin color turned pale.
• This is an example of a narrative because the sentence is
very descriptive.
By: Victoria Tu

51. Logical
Appeal
:Your arguments convince people
because they are logical. They Halie Matthews
make sense to people.

52. Example #1
Please take me shopping
Mom, I need some new
clothes.
Halie Matthews

53. Example #2
My belief that I could be
president, from my
fathers experience with
presidency.
Halie Matthews