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CAHSEE Lit Terms
CAHSEE Literary Terms
Question | Answer |
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Foil | two characters whose characteristics seem more extreme when you compare them to each other |
Symbolism | use real things to represent something else |
Allegory | a story with a moral |
Soliloquy | when a character makes a long speech to the audience |
Opinion | the emotions, evaluations, and reactions of one person |
Simile | a comparison using "like" or "as" |
Genre | a category or type |
Aside | lines said by characters to the audience |
Dialogue | conversation between two or more people |
Statistics | numbers that provide evidence |
Imagery | writer describes things using the five senses |
Monologue | a speech made by one character |
Setting | the location and time of a piece of literature |
Repetition | the use of the same ideas, images and sounds more than once |
Fact | information that can be verified, the truth |
Irony | words that are the opposite of the real meaning of the words |
Metaphor | a comparison between two things |
Mood | the feeling the reader gets when they read |
Tone | the feeling the writer is trying to give through their words |