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OMW stands for...
What is Overall Meaning of the Work?
Representation of a concept as an image
What is imagery?
A literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
what is Foreshadowing?
A type of story with a lot of individual metaphors that add to one large metaphor - usually abstract. Can represent a real life event or phenomenon.
What is an allegory?
An exaggeration.
What is Hyperbole?
A form of figurative language in which something that is not human is given human characteristics.
What is Personification?
An author’s attitude toward his or her subject and audience.
What is Tone?
A type of narration with no apparent editing, where a speaker's thoughts are delivered unfiltered
What is a Stream of Consciousness?
The repeating of a word or concept, for emphasis
What is Repetition?
A story that revolves around teaching a moral lesson.
What is a parable?
A type of narrator who is not always truthful or manipulates events through narration.
What is a an unreliable narrator?
Anything that appears on the surface to be one thing, yet represents something else and carries a hidden, deeper meaning.
What is Symbolism?
Another term for the overall meaning of the work/the "moral of the story."
What is theme?
The time, place, and environment in which a story occurs
What is Setting?
The placement of two or more things side by side, often in order to bring out their differences.
What is juxtaposition?
A literary device where elements of the setting mirror character traits
What is a pathetic fallacy?
A "lightbulb moment" or sudden realization about the world
What is an epiphany?
A reference, whether literary, political, artistic, social, or otherwise, to something outside the text
What is an Allusion?
A figure of speech that makes a comparison using "like" or "as."
What is Simile?
A figure of speech that compares two things that are unrelated, but which share some common characteristics.
What is Metaphor?
The way in which we describe a character - appearance, traits, mannerisms, etc..
What is characterization?
Mixed or conflicting feelings about the subject matter
What is ambivalence?
When a poem or short story changes direction in tone or message, it is called this.
What is a shift?
A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.
Paradox
This classroom's number.
What is 4-203?