Literary Terms
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| foreshadowing | Clues that suggest events that have yet to occur.
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| metaphor | Comparison of two things that are basically unlike but have some qualities in common.
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| irony | Special kind of contrast between appearance and reality—usually one in which reality is the opposite of what it seems.
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| personification | The giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea.
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| alliteration | The repetition of a consonant sound.
1) Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers 2) cool cat
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| allusion | Reference in literature to a familiar person or event.
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| antagonist | Goes against the protagonist.
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| autobiography | It is the author's account of his/her own life.
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| biography | A story of a person's life by another person.
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| mood | A feeling, in the reader, the author creates through his/her word choice.
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| tone | The author's feeling toward his/her subject.
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| theme | The lesson of a story.
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| external conflict | man vs. man/man vs. nature
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| internal conflict | man vs. self/man vs. society
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| resolution | How a story ends
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| narration | The point of view from which a story is told.
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| climax | The point in a story when the protagonist faces his/her conflict
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| onomatopoeia | Is the use of words that imitate sounds.
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| hyperbole | Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
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| verbal irony | A person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning.
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