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Stack #2441897
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| rising action | a series of events in a story leading to the climax |
| personification | describing non-human thing with human characteristics |
| metaphor | a figure of speech that compares two things not using the words like or as |
| simile | a figure of speech that compares two things using the words like or as |
| hyperbole | a figure of speech that shows extreme exaggeration |
| irony | the opposite of what you expect |
| bias | a judgement based on a personal point of view |
| author's purpose | the author's reason for writing; to persuade, to inform, or to entertain |
| alliteration | the repeated consonant sounds |
| allusion | figure of speech that makes a reference to a place, person, or something that happened |
| autobiography | the story of a person's life written by him or herself |
| biography | the story of a person's life written by someone else |
| cause and effect | a relationship between events or things, where one is the result of the other or others |
| climax | the most exciting part of the story |
| compare | similarities between two things |
| conflict | the problem in the story |
| contrast | differences between two things |
| dialogue | a written conversation between two characters or people in a story |
| editorial | a newspaper or magazine article that gives the opinions of the editors or publishers |
| fiction | a story or novel that is not true |
| figurative language | language that cannot be taken literally |
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