1. EXPOSITION
Background information presented in a
literary work.
From To Kill a Mockingbird:
“Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town
when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned
to red slop . . . [s]omehow it was hotter then . . .”

2. EXPOSITION
Background information presented in a
literary work.

3. Figurative Language
The body of devices that enables the
writer to operate on levels other than
the literal one.
"Figures are as old as language. They lie buried in many words
of current use. They occur constantly in both prose and poetry."
(Joseph T. Shipley, Dictionary of World Literary Terms, 1970)

4. Figurative Language
Types (not limited to these):
Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Synecdoche
Metonymy

5. SIMILE
A comparison of one
thing with a different
thing

6. METAPHOR
The application of an
idea or object to
something that’s not
literally applicable

7. HYPERBOLE An exaggerated claim
“I’m so obsessed. My
heart is bound to
beat right out of my
untrimmed chest.”

8. SYNECDOCHE
A reference to
something as one
of its parts or vice
versa

9. “Skirt”
- disparaging slang for a woman
METONYMY Reference to something
more loosely associated
with what it represents