CAHSEE Literary Terms
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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 |
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Created by:
kevans
on 2007-10-05