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Unit 1Literary Terms
Literary Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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" |
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