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Definitions 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Foreshadowing | little hints about what is going to happen later in a story |
| Symbol | anything that stands for something else |
| Dialogue | a conversation in a piece of literature |
| Hyperbole | an extreme exaggeration |
| Flashback | a shift in a story to an earlier event that interrupts the normal development of the story |
| Setting | time and place a story occurs |
| Onomatopoeia | word's sound imitates its meaning |
| Archetype | model of person, personality, or behavior |
| Parody | humorous imitation of a previous literary work |
| Alliteration | repetition of the consonant sound |
| Formulate | plan, make it, put it together, put to this, add up, create, develop, build, invent,etc. |
| Gothic Fiction | genre of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance |
| Metaphor | comparing two unlike things without "like" or "as" |