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The repetition of initial sounds in neighboring sounds
What is Alliteration
100
When an author uses the characters thoughts, words, or actions to help the reader learn more about the character.
What is Characterization?
100
A word that is the opposite in meaning to another word
What is Antonym
100

RACE Meaning 

Restate

Answer 

Cite 

Explain

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A struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces or emotions
What is Conflict/Problem
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An organizational device used in literature to create expectation or to set up an explanation of later developments
What is Foreshadowing
200
Type of poem that contains 14 lines.
What is a sonnet?
200

The message or lesson from a work.

Theme

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The perspective in which the a narrator tells a story and knows all.

Third Person Omniscient

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A poem written for someone who has passed away.
Elegy
300
An exaggeration or overstatement
What is Hyperbole
300
An implied or indirect reference in literature to a familiar person, place, or event
What is Allusion
300
A written account of another person's life
What is Biography
300

The turning point in a narrative; the moment when the conflict is at its most intense.

What is Climax

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varying stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
Meter
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The comparison of two unlike things in which no words of comparison are used
What is Metaphor
400
The range of associations that a word or phrase suggests in addition to its dictionary meaning
What is Connotation
400
The subtle presence of a positive or negative approach toward a topic
What is Bias
400

What is mood? 

The emotions a work evokes. 
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Words and phrases in a sentence, paragraph, and/or whole text, which help reason out the meaning of an unfamiliar word
What is Context Clue
500
A literary approach that ridicules or examines human vice or weakness
What is Satire
500
A for of extended metaphor in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning may have moral, social, religious, or political significance, and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas such as charity, greed, or envy.
What is Allegory
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The author's intent either to inform or teach someone about something, to entertain people or to persuade or convince his/her audience to do or not do something
What is Author's Purpose
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What is tone? 

The attitude of the author.

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The dictionary definition of a word. 

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