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EoG Review
Literary Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| When the same sound is in two to three close words | alliteration |
| Words that are also sounds | Onomatopoeia |
| An extreme exaggeration | Hyperbole |
| When words at the end of a line sound the same | Rhyme |
| The pattern of rhyming in a poem | Rhyme Scheme |
| How the author feels towards their topic | Tone |
| How the reader feels when reading a story | Mood |
| Where or when a story takes place | Setting |
| The good person in a story | Protagonist |
| The bad person in a story | Antagonist |
| The main problem in a story | Conflict |
| The main idea or takeaway from a story | Theme |
| When the story is interrupted to tell something from the past | Flashback |
| When clues/hints are given about what will happen | Foreshadowing |
| A story that is true | Nonfiction |
| A story that is not true | Fiction |
| When a writer tells someone else's life story | Biography |
| When someone writes their own life story | Autobiography |
| A paragraph in poetry | Stanza |
| A sentence in a stanza | Line |
| Repeated sounds words or phrases | Repetition |
| Giving animals/inanimate objects human qualities | Personification |
| Comparison using like or as | Simile |
| Comparison not using like or as | Metaphor |
| Visually descriptive writing | Imagery |
| An image or object that stands for something else | Symbol |