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literary terms 5
literary terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| personification | giving human qualities to non living things |
| assonance | repetition of a vowel sound |
| metaphor | a comparison that doesnt use like or as |
| hyperbole | an exageration |
| onomatopoeia | a sound |
| tone | an authors feeling about a subject |
| autobiography | a story that someone writes about themselves |
| mood | the feeling an audience gets while reading a story |
| plot | the events that happen in a story |
| characterization | the way an author characterizes someone |
| epiphany | a revealing scene or moment |
| conflict | the opposition of persons or forces that gives a rise to the story or drama |
| dialect | a variety of language used by the members of a group |
| dialogue | a conversation by two or more people |
| flashback | an interruption of chronilogical order by interjection of events of earlier occurence |
| foreshadowing | to represent or see things before hand |