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Understanding Literary Terms for 6th Graders: Enhancing Reading Skills

This guide introduces essential literary terms suitable for 6th-grade students, including alliteration, onomatopoeia, mood, idiom, imagery, ballads, epic poetry, hyperbole, fables, folktales, legends, myths, and odes. Each term is defined with examples to illustrate its meaning and application in literary works. By mastering these concepts, students can better appreciate literature's musical qualities, emotional impact, and moral lessons. Engage your students with these fun and educational literary devices to enhance their reading and writing experiences.

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Understanding Literary Terms for 6th Graders: Enhancing Reading Skills

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  1. Literary Terms 6th Grade

  2. Alliteration • The repetition of initial consonant sounds • Writers use alliteration to create musical effects and to draw attention to certain words or ideas. Laughing Lions Turtle Taxi Dandy Dolphins

  3. Onomatopoeia • The use of words whose sound suggests their meaning. Bang Hiss Thud Pow Thwack

  4. Mood • The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage • Writers use many devices to create mood, including images, dialogue, setting, and plot. What is the mood in “Why Dogs are Tame”? Happy

  5. Idiom • An expression of language that means something different from what it appears to mean. He has his head in the clouds. You drive me up a wall.

  6. Imagery • Language that stresses or emphasizes sense impressions that help the reader see, hear, feel, smell, and taste things described in the literary work.

  7. Ballad • A short poem of songlike quality and usually has a refrain. Lord Randal "O where ha you been, Lord Randal, my son?And where ha you been, my handsome young man?""I ha been at the greenwood; mother, mak my bed soon,For I'm wearied wi hunting, and fain wad lie down." "An wha met ye there, Lord Randal, my son?And wha met ye there, my handsome young man?""O I met wi my true-love; mother, mak my bed soon,For I'm wearied wi huntin, and fain wad lie down."

  8. Epic Poetry • Lengthy narrative poem usually about the deeds of a hero. Beowulf The Iliad and The Odyssey

  9. Hyperbole • Use of over exaggerated words, ideas and comparisons to emphasize an idea. When I lost my new scarf at Mardi Gras, I almost died! I am so hungry I could eat a horse.

  10. Fable • A short story that teaches a moral about human nature. “The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg”

  11. Folktales • A story with no known author that originally was passed on from one generation to another by word of mouth. He Lion Bruh Bear Bruh Rabbit

  12. Legends • Stories set in the past that are based on a real-life hero and his/her mighty deeds. “The Legend of John Henry” “Paul Bunyan”

  13. Myths • Stories involving gods, goddesses, and supernatural heroes. “Perseus” “Wings”

  14. Odes • Lyrical poems written to the praise of a person, animal, or thing. “Ode to an Artichoke” “Ode to Mi Gato”

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