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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| alliteration | beginning several neighboring words with the same sound |
| allusion | reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place, or thing |
| antithesis | to place structurally parallel words side by side fro the purpose of contrast |
| apostrophe | a form of personification |
| assonance | repetition of accented vowel sounds |
| consonance | repetition of consonant sound |
| details | facts reveled by the author |
| diction | word choice |
| figures of speech | imaginative comparison between unlike things |
| flashback | a scene to show a previous event |
| foreshadowing | the use of hints or clues to suggest future action |
| hyperbole | a deliberate exaggeration |
| imagery | language used to produce an image in the readers mind |
| irony | something unexpected |
| metaphor | on thing "is" another |
| mood | the atmosphere |
| motivation | a set of circumstances |
| narration | |
| onomatopoeia | |
| oxymoron | |
| paradox | |
| personification | |
| plot | |
| point of view | |
| prosody | |
| protagonist | |
| pun | |
| repetition | |
| rhyme | |
| sarcasm | |
| setting | |
| shift | |
| simile | |
| sound devices | |
| structure | |
| style | |
| suspense | |
| symbol | |
| synecdoche | |
| syntax | |
| theme | |
| tone | |
| understatement | |
| context clue | |
| rhetorical question | |
| anecdote | |
| archetype | |
| critique | |
| epiphany | |
| explication | |
| infer | |
| juxtapose | |
| motif | |
| persona | |
| prose | |
| rhetoric | |
| dialogue | |
| genre | |
| thesis statement | |
| antagonist |
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