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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Figure of speech that makes a fresh correlation | Metaphor |
| Direct correlation using "like" or "as" | Simile |
| Makes ue of a part to indicate a whole (ex. A hand in marriage) | Synecdoche |
| Replaces the thing intended with some other thing that is associated with it (ex. I send my people) | Metonymy |
| Non-human things given human qualities | Personification |
| A "turning away". Speaker addresses someone or thing. (ex. My people-Cesaire) | Apostrophe |
| Two terms linked that are customarily opposites (ex. burning ice) | Oxymoron |
| Symbolic systems which elements represent abstract concepts (ex. Animal Farm) | Allegory |
| Subject of story/novel, dominate ideas or meanings | Theme |
| Series of actions or events | Plot |
| Two stories told of equal importance, often moving from one to the other | Parallel Plot |
| Secondary plot; story within a story told by a character | Sublot |
| Record of events that happened | Narrative |
| Physical location of events and times they occurred | Setting |
| Technique of repeating consonant sounds, commonly at the beginning of words | Alliteration |
| substitution of vowel sounds within nearby words | Assonance |
| Substitution of vowels within words that have the same consonant sounds (tick tock) | Consonance |
| Words that sound like they mean | Onomatopoeia |
| Words that repeat the same sounds | Rhyme |
| Words/ phrases that evoke the 5 senses | Imagery |
| Overstatment, exaggeration | Hyperbole |
| Stance taken in a piece of writing toward its subject. Language such as "bitter", "mocking" etc | Tone |
| Figure of speech when something is said but the opposite is implied | Verbal Irony |
| When the outcome of events is different than the desired/expected result | Situational Irony |
| Reader or audience knows something the fictional charcters don't. (Happy Man) | Dramatic Irony |
| Technique using irony, sarcasm, or mockery that combines humor and wit with a crticism of human folly. | Satire |
| Writing style that contains detailed descriptions of everyday life | Realism |
| Style of writing that focuses on what's beyond reality, beyond the rational, ordinary experiences of humans | Surrealism |
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