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100
Words or phrases that appeal to the senses (sight, sound, taste, touch, hearing).
What is images?
100
The time and place of a story or play.
What is setting?
100
A conversation between two or more people.
What is dialogue?
100
The attitude an author has toward a certain subject or character.
What is tone?
100
A story's atmosphere or the feeling it evokes.
What is mood?
200
The writer's or speaker's use of language and vocabulary in a text.
What is voice?
200
The struggle or clash between opposing characters or forces.
What is conflict?
200
A series or related events that make up a story or drama.
What is plot?
200
A reasoning for a character's actions.
What is motivation?
200
What the story is about.
What is subject?
300
The use of humor to criticize or humiliate someone.
What is satire?
300
A humorous play on words.
What is pun?
300
A word or phrase that takes the place or the name of a person or thing.
What is epithet?
300
A group of words that cannot be understood through each individual word.
What is idiom?
300
An exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
400
A statement that is contradictory, yet true.
What is paradox?
400
A combination of contradictory words.
What is oxymoron?
400
A substitute for a word that may offend someone or suggest something unpleasant.
What is euphemism?
400
A description in which a nonhuman thing is given human qualities.
What is personification?
400
A comparison between two things in which one becomes the other.
What is metaphor?
500
Comparison between 2 things using "like" or "as."
What is simile?
500
Reference to a statement, person, place, or event from literature, history, mythology, politics, sports, science, or pop culture.
What is allusion?
500
The author leaves us hanging with multiple outcomes.
What is ambiguity?
500
The contrast between expectation and reality. 3 types: Verbal, situational, dramatic.
What is irony?
500
A person, place, thing, or event that stands for something beyond itself.
What is symbol?
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