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Hero's Journey
Review for Hero's Journey
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| finicky | excessively concerned with trifles or details; hard to please; fussy |
| expendable | not necessary; capable of being sacrificed |
| annihilate | destroy utterly; obliterate |
| subliminal | below the level of consciousness |
| subtle | not obvious; difficult to detect |
| allusion | a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art |
| foreshadowing | the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot |
| metaphor | direct or implied comparison |
| hyperbole | extreme exaggeration |
| simile | a comparison of two unlike things using like or as |
| personification | the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea |
| idiom | a common expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally |
| simile | literary device example: your mark on history is as big as an ocean |
| allusion | literary device example: Ben Franklin, Queen Victoria, Moses |
| hyperbole | literary device example: squash a small bug and you sink a continent |
| idiom | literary device example: don't count your chickens before they hatch |