Literary Terms
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| Is the introduction. It is the part of the work that introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation. | show 🗑
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| show | Climax
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| show | Resolution
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| show | External Conflict
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| Exist within the mind of a character who is torn between different courses of action. Man vs. Himself | show 🗑
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| Is literary device in which an earlier episode, conversation, or event is inserted into the sequence of events. Often flashbacks are presented as a memory of the narrator or of another character. | show 🗑
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| Is the author’s use of clues to hint at what happen later in the story. Writers use the foreshadowing to build their readers’ expectations and to create suspense. This is used to help readers prepare for what is to come. | show 🗑
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| The use of one thing to represent another. Often the thing that representing intangible (touchable/physical) and the thing being represents in an idea, For example, a dove is a symbol of peace. | show 🗑
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| show | Mood
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| Affects the mood. Is the reflection of a writer’s or speaker’s attitude toward a subject of a poem, story, or other literary work. | show 🗑
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| A descriptive device uses to often imply ideas indirectly. | show 🗑
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| show | Hyperbole
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| Is a type of speech that compares or equates two or more things that have something in common. A metaphor does NOT use like or as. Example: like is like a box of chocolates. | show 🗑
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| show | Simile
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| Is a figure of speech in which an animal, object, force on nature, or an idea is given human qualities or characteristics. Example: tears began to fall from the dark clouds. | show 🗑
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| A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is. - Shows sarcasm on the part of the writer/speaker - Can show tone. | show 🗑
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| Asking a question that you do not intended to be answered. - Could you guys please stop talking? | show 🗑
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| A reference to something or someone often literary. - For instance, if you were trying to instill confidence in a friend and said, “Use the force,” that would be and allusion to Star Wars. - The verb form of allusion is to allude. | show 🗑
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| Is the repetition of sounds, most often consonant sounds, at the beginning of words. Alliteration gives emphasis to words. Example: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. | show 🗑
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| show | Paradox
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| show | Analogy
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| Situational - When the opposite of what you expect to happen happens. Verbal - When you say the opposite of what you mean (related to sarcasm and being facetious) Dramatic - When the audience knows something that the characters on stage don’t know. | show 🗑
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| A play on words - She had a boyfriend with a wooden leg, but broke it off. | show 🗑
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| Direction exposition- what is said about the character. Indirect - Characters thoughts - Characters actions | show 🗑
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