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Lit Terms Unit 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| setting | the time and place of the story. |
| shift | a change in movement in a piece resulting from a realization or insight gained by the speaker, a character, or the reader. |
| simile | a comparison using "like" or "as." |
| sound devices | stylistic techniques that convey meaning through sound. |
| structure | the organization (divisions) of a literary selection. |
| style | the way a writer uses language |
| suspense | the quality that makes the reader tense about the outcome of events. |
| symbol | any object, person, or place that stands for something. |
| synecdoche | when a part of something is used to signify the whole. |
| syntax | the arrangement of words and the order of grammatical elements in a sentence. |
| theme | the central message. |
| tone | the writer’s attitude toward a subject, character, or audience. |
| understatement | to deliberately represent something as being much less than it really is. |
| context clue | when you figure out a word’s meaning by the way it is used in a sentence. |
| rhetorical question | a question that doesn’t require an answer. |