Literary Terms
1-Personification is giving inanimate objects or abstract ideas human qualities or
actions; making non-human things appear as human.
2-Metaphor: a comparison between two objects for the purpose of describing one of
them; a metaphor states that the one object is the other.
3- Alliteration: close repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
4- Diction: an author’s choice and use of words; his vocabulary.
5- Epic: an extended narrative poem, with heroic subject matter and theme, and
exalted tone.
6- Rhyme: the use of words with similar sounds in poetry, usually but not always at
the ends of lines.
7- Stanza: a group of lines in a poem divided off from the others. Each stanza is
usually the same number of lines in length.