Key Terms
Figurative Language
100

A literary text lesson or message

Theme

100

When an author describes an object as if it were a person

Personification

200

The specific order of a series of events that form a story

Plot

200

A comparison using like or as

Simile

300

To come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence

Inference

300

A word that isn't meant to be literal

Metaphor

400

In most stories there is conflict or problem.This word is the solution to those problems

Resolution

400

A exaggeration and beyond belief

Hyperbole

500

Refers to the way an author develops a character over the course of the story

Characterization

500

A word with a repetition at the beginning of a sentence

Alliteration

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