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Lit Terms
L.A. stuffs
Term | Definition |
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Point of view | The perspective from which a story is told. The voice telling the story. |
Simile | Using like or as to compare two things. |
Allusion | A usually brief often casual reference to some other person, event, or thing. |
Flashback | A section of a novel that interrupts the chronological sequence of events to relate something that happened at an earlier time. |
Foreshadowing | Hints or suggestions about something that will occur later in the novel. |
Pun | A play on words in which two different meanings for the same word, or two different words that sound the same, are used humorously. |