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vocab terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Acronym | Word formed from letters. LOL |
| Alliteration | Phrase with thesame letters. Chloe collects clean clothes. |
| Allusion | Compares someone to someone historic or a novel. Harriet Tubman was the Moses of her time. |
| Anachromism | Something that isnt in the right time. Jesus had a cell phone. |
| Analogy | Similarty between two things. dark is to light as cry is to laugh |
| Anecdote | Short humorus story. In my day Pluto was a planet. |
| Aside | Words spoken to the audience while others are on the stage. |
| Assonance | resembulance of sounds. steep and heat. |
| Character | someone is the story |
| Cliche | phrase expressing a common thought or idea. as easy as pie. |
| conflict | fight or the top of climax. |
| Connotation | secondary meaning. home; place of warmth |
| denotation | dictionary definition. home; place where live |
| dialect | type of language |
| diction | type of speaking or writing |
| dystopia | not a place to be |
| Epic | Heroic |
| Epiphany | a sudden insight to the meaning of something. |
| Fable | story that teaches a lesson |
| Fiction | fake story |
| Figurative language | a way of saying something |
| flashback | look into the past |
| foil | opposite personality to another character. harry and voldemort |
| foreshadowing | give a glimpse ito something that is going to happen |
| genre | type of story |
| hyperpole | exaggeration. i've told you a million times. |
| irony | contrast between expectaion and reality |
| memoir | ones life story |
| metaphor | compares two things without using like or as |
| mood/atmosphere | emotion the story gives off |
| narrator | person telling the story |
| nonfiction | real story |
| novel | book |
| onomatopoeia | sounds |
| oxymoron | opposites. jumbo shrimp |
| palindrome | spelled the same backwards. racecar |
| paraphrase | summary |
| personifiction | gving something nonliving human characteristics. |
| plot | makes up story |
| pun | use of a word to decribes its different meaning. i tried to wrap a present but i didnt have the gift. |
| redundancy | two words together. if we cooperate together. tak out cooperate. |
| repetition | repeating. |
| rhetorical question | no one can answer. what happens when we die? |
| satire | humor to critize. |
| science fiction | book about science, fake. |
| setting | place where a story takes place |
| simile | comparing two things using like or as. |
| stereotype | things that offend people |
| suspense | excitment |
| symbol | picture with a meaning |
| theme | main idea about story |
| thesis | tells the reader what to expect |
| tone | the attitude of the speaker |
| utopia | perfect world |
| voice | using tone and mood |
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