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Mrs. Oates
Reading Terms 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| plot | events in a story |
| resolution | the final outcome of the story |
| climax | the best part of the story, the point of greatest interest |
| conflict | the problem in the story |
| personification | gives animals or things human characters |
| hyperbole | exaggeration |
| symbolism | it stands for or represents something |
| imagery | creating a picture in the readers mind using descriptive words |
| foreshadow | gives clues to what might happen in the future |
| flashback | interrupting the story with events from the past |
| irony | a statement meaning the opposite of what is literally stated, there are 3 types of irony |
| idiom | a phrase in which the real meaning is different from the stated meaning |