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Lit. Device #3
Term | Definition |
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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 it 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" |