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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| A person, place or thing: | Noun |
| An action word: | Verb |
| A word that describes a person, place or thing: | Adjective |
| A word that describes an action: | Adverb |
| A literary device with repetition of the same sound in the first letter of two or more words: | Alliteration |
| The act of one character speaking one's thoughts aloud: | Soliloquy |
| The author's most important idea in the creation of his or her work: | Central Idea |
| A writer's attitude toward his or her subject: | Tone |
| Related to a certain topic: | Relevant |
| To make an idea clear: | Clarify |
| A literary device where an author provides hints or clues of what is to come in the story: | Foreshadowing |
| A literary device where an author uses words that appeal to the reader's senses to create pictures in the readers mind: | Imagery |
| A literary device where an author compares 2 unlike things WITHOUT using like or as: | Metaphor |
| A literary device where an author gives human qualities to something non-living: | Personification |
| Variety: | Diversity |
| A part of the story that describes or shows something that happened in the past: | Flashback |
| To look back upon: | Reflect |
| The practice of looking closely at small parts: | Analysis |
| The organization of a written piece: | Structure |
| To make an idea clear | Clarify |