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literary terms 5
literary terms
Question | Answer |
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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 |