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Unit Test
All definitions
Term | Definition |
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alliteration | beginning several neighboring words with the same sound |
allusion | reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place, or thing |
antithesis | to place structurally parallel words side by side fro the purpose of contrast |
apostrophe | a form of personification |
assonance | repetition of accented vowel sounds |
consonance | repetition of consonant sound |
details | facts reveled by the author |
diction | word choice |
figures of speech | imaginative comparison between unlike things |
flashback | a scene to show a previous event |
foreshadowing | the use of hints or clues to suggest future action |
hyperbole | a deliberate exaggeration |
imagery | language used to produce an image in the readers mind |
irony | something unexpected |
metaphor | on thing "is" another |
mood | the atmosphere |
motivation | a set of circumstances |
narration | |
onomatopoeia | |
oxymoron | |
paradox | |
personification | |
plot | |
point of view | |
prosody | |
protagonist | |
pun | |
repetition | |
rhyme | |
sarcasm | |
setting | |
shift | |
simile | |
sound devices | |
structure | |
style | |
suspense | |
symbol | |
synecdoche | |
syntax | |
theme | |
tone | |
understatement | |
context clue | |
rhetorical question | |
anecdote | |
archetype | |
critique | |
epiphany | |
explication | |
infer | |
juxtapose | |
motif | |
persona | |
prose | |
rhetoric | |
dialogue | |
genre | |
thesis statement | |
antagonist |