Literary Terms 1-5

1) Alliteration: the repetition of similar initial sounds, usually consonants, in a group of words.

• Ex: Sally sold seashells by the seashore.

2) Analogy: a similarity between two things, on which a comparison may be based

• Ex: You are as annoying as nails on a chalkboard.

3) Cliché: anything that has become commonplace through overuse

• Ex: All for one, and one for all.

4) Inversion: words out of order for emphasis

• Ex: United there is little we cannot do.

5) Oxymoron: a figure of speech by which a locution produces a seemingly self-contradictory effect

• Ex: True lies.