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Unit 1Literary Terms
Literary Terms
Term | Definition |
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personal narrative | a story based on one's own life and told in the first person |
theme | central idea or purpose (message) of the literary work |
personification | figurative language that gives human characteristics to an animal or nonliving thing. |
conflict | a struggle between characters or opposing forces |
external conflict | the character struggles with an outside force |
internal conflict | a character struggles with his or her own needs or emotions |
connotation | suggested or implied meaning of emotion associated with a word. |
denotation | the literal meaning of a word |
point of view | the perspective from which a story or poem is told. |
figurative language | language used in an imaginative way to express ideas that aren't literally true. |
simile | compares two unlike things using the words "like or "as" |
metaphor | compares two unlike things WITHOUT using words such as "like" or "as" |