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Viking Vocabulary Terms for Final Exam

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Anecdote   A brief story or tale told by a character in a piece of literature  
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Allusion   a figure of speech which makes brief, even casual references to a historical or literary figure, event, or object to create a connection with the reader  
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Sarcasm   A sharp hurtful remark. A form of verbal irony in which praise of something is actually harshly critical.  
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Paradox   A statement that seems contradictory, but is actually true.  
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Onomatopoeia   A word capturing or approximating the sound of what it describes  
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Diction   Author's word choice.  
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Tone   The attitude a literary work takes towards its subject and theme. It reflects the narrator's attitude.  
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Mood   The feeling resulting from the tone of a piece as well as the writer’s attitude and point of view.  
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Theme   A central or dominant idea or concern of a work: the main idea or meaning  
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Hyperbole   Exaggeration  
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Alliteration   The repetition of similar sounding words within a group of words  
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Denotation   The dictionary definition  
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Connotation   what is implied by a word or phrase  
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Analogy   A comparison between two things, ideas, places, or people  
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Simile   A comparison between two things using “like” or “as”  
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Metaphor   A comparison between two things without using "like" or "as"  
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Sensory Details   Including descriptions of the five senses to engage the reader: sight, touch, taste, smell, and sound.  
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Rhyme Scheme   Ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of lines in poetry.  
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Genre   A category of art (music or literature) characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.  
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Foreshadow   A hint at things to come in a story or play.  
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Climax   the most intense, exciting, or important point of something  
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Falling Action:   the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved  
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Rising Action:   a series of related incidents build toward the point of greatest interest  
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Exposition:   introduce background information about events, settings, characters etc. to the audience or readers  
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Resolution:   Explores the consequences of the actions of the characters and the problems are either resolved or an invaluable lesson has been learned.  
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Personification   Treating an abstraction or non-human object as if it were an human by giving it human qualities.  
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