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Pre-AP Lit. Dev. 1
Literary Device Words pt. 1
Question | Answer |
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What is an Allusion | reference to something famous outside a story |
What is an anachronism | "against time" an object or reference which would not have been possible during the time when the story is taking place |
What is diction | word choice |
What is genre | type of story or novel |
What is an idiom | an expression whose words mean one thing when taken all together, but mean something different when one considers the words individually |
What is imagery | words that create a picture in the readers mind |
What is juxtaposition | putting two things right next to each other, often things that are opposite |
What is prose | anything that is not poetry |
WHat is symbol | Concrete object in a story that represents and abstract idea |
What is tone | How an author feels about a character or situation in a story |