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English 1 Lit Terms
Literary Devices
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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. |
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