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Lang Arts Term Test
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | a figure of speech formed by repeating the same initial consonant sound in several words in close succession; "boys, behave". |
| Allusion | a reference in a story to the proper name of a character, thing, or setting from another literary work or from real life. “It’s not as if I was Adam and you were Eve.” |
| Assonance | a figure of speech in which the same accented vowel is repeated through several words in succession;“trunks of junk”. |
| Cause and Effect | a cause is what makes something happen. The effect is what happens as a result of the cause. |
| Conflict | a struggle between opposing forces |
| External conflict | between two characters or outside forces (e.g., protagonist vs. antagonist; character vs. the elements) |
| Internal conflict | struggle within a character (e.g., a character’s coming to terms with the fact that he or she is not “like everyone else”) |
| Foreshadowing | the use of clues or hints to suggest events that will occur later in the plot; Foreshadowing helps readers make predictions, or guesses about what will happen next. |
| Imagery | the use of sensory words (sight, sound, smell, taste, feel) to describe an object or person |
| Inference | a conclusion based on a premise; what the writer states plus what the reader knows creates a conclusion or inference. “Douglas moved his right hand stealthily to the ticking, pulled out the watch stem. He set the hands back” |
| Irony | the opposite of what is expected |
| verbal irony | what is said is the opposite of what is meant |
| situational irony | what happens is not what is expected |
| dramatic irony | the reader knows something the character does not know |
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