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A reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person/place/thing.
What is allusion?
100
Word choice.
What is diction?
100
An intentionally outrageous exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
100
The telling of a story.
What is narration?
100
An event occurs that was unexpected OR what is expected to happen doesn't.
What is situational irony?
200
When the absent are spoken as if present or the inanimate as if animate.
What is apostrophe?
200
Placing side-by-side parallel words, phrases, & clauses for the purpose of contrast.
What is antithesis?
200
The opposite of what is said is actually meant.
What is verbal irony?
200
Words that, when spoken, mimic the sounds they describe.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
Descriptions that appeal to the senses (Hint: 5)
What is imagery?
300
Facts revealed by the author that support the tone in a piece of Literature.
What are details?
300
Words/phrases that describe one thing in terms of something else.
What are figures of speech?
300
The audience knows information that the characters do not.
What is dramatic irony?
300
A paradox combining opposite terms to create a single expression.
What is oxymoron?
300
The use of hints or clues to suggest future action.
What is foreshadowing?
400
The repetition of consonant sounds.
What is consonance?
400
The repetition of accented vowel sounds.
What is assonance?
400
Comparing two unlike items NOT using "like" or "as."
What is metaphor?
400
A scene that interrupts the action of a work to show a previous event.
What is flashback?
400
A kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects human characteristics.
What is personification?
500
The practice of beginning several words with the same sound (Hint: Think of tongue twisters).
What is alliteration?
500
The predominant atmosphere or emotion.
What is mood?
500
What prompts a character to act in a certain way.
What is motivation?
500
A statement that contradicts itself but results in showing a "hidden truth."
What is paradox?
500
The sequence of events in a piece of Literature.
What is plot?
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