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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Literal Language | Literal means actual |
| Figurative Language | Phrases or words that changes the literal meaning to make it fresh or clearer,to express complexity to capture a physical or sensory effect or to extend meaning |
| Metaphor | figure of speech that compares to unrelated things to one another the comparison is often understood but possibly implied or even hidden |
| Simile | compares two unrelated things to one another use LIKE or AS |
| Personification | giving an animal or inanimate objects human characteristics |
| Onomatopoeia | a word that imitates the sound it represents |
| Hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to make a comparison |
| Oxymoron | a figure of speech that uses contradictions/opposites together to create terms. |
| Irony | an intentional contradiction between what something appears to mean and what it really means |
| Tone | refers to the aurthors attitude towards his audience or the material |
| Mood | the feeling created in the reader by literary work or passage |
| Point of View | the perspective from which the story is told |
| 1st person | we readers are in the mind of the character |
| 2nd person | not found very often feels like the reader is being controled |
| 3rd person | we are in the mind of the narrator often an omniscient one which meams we see all that is going on around the chacaters and town |
| Narrator | the person from within the story who is telling |
| Foreshawdowing | use of hints or clues to suggest what may happen later in a narrative |
| Flashback | use of a scene or event from the past that takes the reader back in time to better understand the present |
| Plot | sequence of events in a story or play |
| Exposition | beginning of a story where the characters and setting is revealed |
| Rising action | where the events in the story become complicated and the conflict in the story is revealed |
| Climax | highest point of interest and turning point in the story |
| Falling action | the events and complications begin to resolve themselves |
| Resolution | final out come or untangling of events in the story |
| Conflict | the main problem in a story |
| Synonym | a word that has a meaning identical to another word in the same language |
| Antonym | word or phase with the opposite meaning as another |
| Allusion | reference to a person place or thing in history |
| Main idea | the focus of the writting |
| Theme | controlling idea or central thread that ties the passage or story together |
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