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Leturature Terms 3
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Exposition | The part of a story or play that explains the background or makes conflict clear. |
| Falling Action | The action that takes place in a story after the climax and that resolves the conflict. |
| First Person Point of View | Told from the perspective of one character in the story. Designated by the pronoun I. |
| Flashback | When a story's sequence is interrupted and a character goes back to an earlier time. |
| Foreshadowing | The use of clues that suggest events yet to come. |
| Genre | A french word meaning form or type. Literary genres are novel, essay, play. |
| Hyperbole | Exaggerating or stretching the truth for literary effects. |
| Onomatopoeia | The use of words that imitate sound. |
| Imagery | Words that describe sight, sound, movement, and recreate sensory experience. |
| Irony | When something is different than it is supposed to be or thought to be. |
| Metaphor | Comparison of two unlike things without using like or as. |
| Simile | Comparison of two unlike things using the word like or as. |