Metaphor : comparison without using like or as Onomatopoeia : words that sound like themselves bang, crash, boom Personification :Human qualities to an object Synecdoche :using a part to represent the whole Idiom :an expression when taken literally does not make perfect sense Its raining cats and dogs, driving me up the wall, your in hot water, your seeing red Simile :comparison using like or as Hyperbole :exaggeration for affect Synonym :word that means the same thing as another word Riding/constituency local/municipal Antonymn: words that are opposites Homonymn: words that sound the same but have different meanings There,their,they`re Alliteration: a repetition with the same consonant sound Imagery: pictures painted by words Setting: a place where something happens Humour: what makes you laugh Fantasy: not real Mystery: something has to be solved Non-fiction: something real Science fiction: not real created stories on a science theme Historical fiction: based on historical facts but fiction in way story was told Autobiography: story about yourself written by yourself Biography: story about someone written by someone else Colon: a. before a list ; b. seperate hours from minutes in time; c. after a formal salutation in a letter Comma: creates a pause in reading; seperates items in a list; seperates month from day and date from year; separate city from province and province from country Period: end punctuation of a statement sentence exclamation mark: strong feelings/emotions question mark: used after interrogotive Prefix meanings:

Im – not Dis- not and opposite Bi- two Tri- three Uni- one

Suffix meanings Ous- full of Ness- being usefull Ment- the state of Myth- untrue story that teaches a lesson Legend- Travelogue Comic Short films Dramatic performances Legend Shape poems- poetry written in a shape Free verse- no rhyme or pattern Character- a person in a story or poem Limerick- five line poem lines one, two and five have rhyming last words and Lines three and four rhyme Genre- type of writing romance, mystery, action, war, etc… Third person narration- written without writer putting themselves in the story Sound- Flashback- go back into memory and remember something that happened in the past, usually written in italics Plot- solving the action of the story plot ends when solution is found Inference- what we know about something from information we already have Fact- that which can be proven to be true Fiction- untrue Thesaurus- a reference book of synonyms Author- writer of a story, poem, article, letter… Newswriter Quote- direct statement of a person Past, present and future of verb tenses Comparative,(between two things) superlative (between one and many) forms of adjectives Parentheses-brackets used in writing Ellipses- … used to indicate something has been left out or more can be added Tone- feelings one gets from reading something Bias- negative or positive leaning in writing