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Figurative Language
Persuasion
Narratives
Poetic Devices
Grab Bag
100
a sentence that compares two unlike things using "like" or as"
Simile
100
who the author is trying to persuade
Audience
100
a conversation between two or more characters
Dialogue
100
using a person, thing, or object to represent something else
Symbolism
100
The universal message of a story
Theme
200
a comparison of two unlike things without using the words like or as
Metaphor
200
a reasoned defense of a position or claim
Argument
200
the main or leading character in a narrative
Protagonist
200
the repeated use of the same word or phrase, usually for emphasis
Repetition
200
In a narrative, the person telling the story
Narrator
300
giving human traits (qualities, feelings, actions, or characteristics) to non-living things
Personification
300
an argument that appeal's to a reader's emotions
Emotional appeal
300
when the author mentions or hints at something that will happen later in a story
Foreshadowing
300
Repetition of the initial letter or sound in two or more words in a line
Alliteration
300
The attitude of the author/narrator towards the subject being written about
Tone
400
an extreme exaggeration
Hyperbole
400
facts, reasons, data, or opinions to support a claim
Evidence
400
point of view when the narrator is an outsider looking at the action, but the reader enters only one character's mind
Third person limited
400
a reference to a well-known person, place, event, or other piece of literature
Allusion
400
The main idea of an essay to be proved/explained (subject + two opinions)
Thesis
500
deliberately making a situation seem smaller or less important than it really is
Understatement
500
an argument that opposes your claim
Counterargument
500
point of view when the narrator is an outsider observing the action, and the thoughts of every character are open to the reader
Third person omniscient
500
Repeated use of the same sentence structure, usually to show two topics are of equal importance
Parallelism
500
when the audience/reader knows something that the characters do not
Dramatic irony