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Setting
What is a place where the story occurs
100
Hyperbole
What is extreme exaggeration
100
personification
What is the assigning of human qualities to inanimate objects or concepts
100
onomatopoeia
What is a word that sounds like the sound they represent
100
tone
What is the authors attitude toward a subject
200
allusion
What is a reference in a piece of literature to something, historical, mythological, literary, or biblical
200
foreshadowing
What is hints of future literary events in a literary work
200
style
What is the unique was an author presents his ideas
200
syntax
What is the grammatical structure of prose and poetry
200
symbol
What is something in literary work that stands for something else
300
personification
What is the assigning of human qualities to inanimate objects or concepts
300
onomatopoeia
What is words that sounds like the sound they represent
300
confide
What is a clash between opposing forces in a literary work
300
alliteration
What is repetition of initial consonant sounds
400
setting
What is the time and place of a literary work
400
metaphor
What is a direct comparison between dissimilar things
400
diction
What is authors choice of words
400
hyperbole
What is extreme exaggeration
400
simile
What is an indirect comparison that uses the words "like" or "as"
500
"Let me tell you a funny story about one of my brothers"
What is anecdote
500
Paul Baumer tells the story of the men of the Second Company is an example of
What is setting
500
"When the veining is spread out against the sky"
What is imagery
500
Antigone is an example of
What is drama
500
"As clear as frost on a grass-blade"
What is simile
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