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literary terms
homework 1-8
| literary term | definition |
|---|---|
| infering | to conclude by reasoning |
| suspense | a state of uncertanty |
| mood | tone of the story |
| symbolism | representation by symbols |
| conflict | a fight or war ex; man vs. man |
| idioms | s phrase that cant be translated literally |
| dramatic irony | the audience knows somthing the character doesn't |
| verbal irony | one says something and means the opposite |
| situational irony | you predict something will happen, but the opposite happens |
| allusion | an indirect refrence |
| foreshadowing | to indicate or suggest beforehand |
| personification | to think of or reprisint a thing as a person |
| metaphor | one thing is spoken as if it were another |
| irony | figure of speech conveying meaning through words of opposite meaning |
| cliche | over- used phrase |
| alliteration | use of the same sound to start several succeeding words |
| imagery | picture using symbols |
| pun | play with similar souning words with different meanings |
| connotations | to suggest or convey in addition to the explicitor donoted meaning |