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English 1 Lit Terms
Literary Devices
Question | Answer |
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Suspense | the excitement or tension that readers feel as they become involved in a story and eager to know the outcome of the plot. |
Foreshadowing | Writer's use of hints or clues to indicate events and situations that will occur later in the plot. |
Conflict | Struggle between opposing forces |
External conflict | problem that involves a character against an outside force such as nature, a physical obstacle, or another character |
Internal Conflict | problem within the character |
Setting | time and place of action of a story |
Protagonist | central character or hero in a narrative or drama |
Antagonist | usually the principle character in oppostition to the protagonist |
Mood | the feeling or atmosphere that the writer creates. Ex: descriptive words, setting, figurative language |
Metaphor | figure of speech that makes a comparison betweemn two things using the word 'like' or 'as' |
Simile | figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things that are basically unlike but have something in common |
Personification | a figure of speech in which human qualities are attributed to an object, animal, or idea. |