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English terms
literary term
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| tone | attitude/emotion of writer/speaker |
| sentence | starts with cap; end punch.; complete thought; makes sense on own; subject predicate |
| subject | the person or thing that does an action-I, you, he, she, they or a noun like 'the table' in the table fell on my foot |
| predicate | is the verb or action of the sentence; example- fell in the sentence The table fell on my foot |
| figurative | exaggerating ; comparison ;not literal, not direct but a truthful main idea |
| literal | real, truthfully, directly what you mean |
| metaphor | a fig. comparison between two things ; raining cats and dogs |
| simile | a fig. comp. using 'like' or 'as' -comparison to another to clarify/enhance an image |
| personification | the application of human qualities to non human things; the car blinked its lights |
| alliteration | repeating sounds at the stack of nearby words; the green grass grew grossly |
| anephora | form of repetition where you repeat words at the beginning of mult sentences |