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The repetition of initial sounds in neighboring sounds
What is Alliteration
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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
Two sound devices used in poetry.
Varies
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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
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Type of poem that contains 14 lines.
What is a sonnet?
200
Life lesson revealed through a poem or book
What is theme
200
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
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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
300
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
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The range of associations that a word or phrase suggests in addition to its dictionary meaning
What is Connotation
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The subtle presence of a positive or negative approach toward a topic
What is Bias
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The method an author uses to reveal characters and their various traits and personalities
What is Characterization
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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
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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 the difference between tone and mood?
Tone is how the author feels. Mood is how the reader feels.
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Label the stressed an unstressed syllables: That time of year thou mayst in me behold.
That time* of year* thou mayst* in me* be hold*
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