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literary elements
terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| allusion | an allusion is a reference to a well known person, event, place, literary work, or of art. |
| alliteration | When two or more words in a group of words begin with the same sound (usually, the same letter or group of letters). For example: Anne’s awesome apple; Fred’s frozen french fries. See also: figurative language. |
| symbol | An object, setting, event, animal, or person that on one level is itself, but that has another meaning as well. For example, the American flag is really a piece of fabric with stars and stripes on it, but it also represents the United States and ideals |
| dynamic character | character who undergoes a significant internal change over the course of a story. This may be a change in understanding, values, insight, etc. See also: static character. |
| metaphor | The comparison of two unlike things to illuminate a particular quality or aspect of one of those things. For example, “Karen was a ray of sunshine” is a metaphor in which Karen is compared with a ray of sunshine. The metaphor suggests that Karen was che |
| static character | A character who does not undergo a significant change over the course of a story. See also: dynamic character. |
| idiom | expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its individual words. For example, “it’s raining cats and dogs” is an idiom that means it’s raining really hard—but there is no way to know that from the meanings of its individual words. See als |
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