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Literary Elements
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A narrative that a person writes about his or her life.
Autobiography
100
A story is told by one of the characters.
First-person point of view
100
Type of poetry that does not have a regular pattern of rhythm or rhyme.
Free Verse
100
Repeated vowel sounds.
Assonance
200
The art of effective public speaking, or the use of persuasive skills when speaking.
Oratory
200
To make an educated guess about what will happen based on the clues that a writer provides.
Predict
200
The distinct use of language that conveys the author's or speaker's personality to the reader.
Voice
200
Techniques that appearl to the ear.
Sound Devices
300
A daily record of events by a participant in those events or a witness to them.
Journal
300
In a story, the narrator is outside the story and reveals the thoughts, feelings, and observations of only one character.
Third-person limited point of view
300
Seemingly contradictory statement.
Paradox
300
Repeated consonant sounds at the beginnings of words.
Alliteration
400
The relationship of the narrator, or storyteller, to the story.
Point of View
400
The use of a series of words, phrases, or sentences that have similiar grammatical form.
Parallelism
400
Repetition of the same stressed vowel sounds and any succeeding sounds in two or more words.
Full Rhyme
400
Repeated consonant sounds in the middle or at the ends of words.
Consonance
500
All-knowing, point of view.
Omniscient
500
Term that denotes the expressive qualities that distinguish an author's work.
Style
500
Occurs when the rhyme of two words depends on sounds are similiar but not identical.
Slant Rhyme
500
You put something you have read into your own words.
Paraphrase