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Moving from events happening in the present to events that happened in the past; this gives the reader information to understand current situations.
What is flashback?
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Clues that hint at events to come.
What is foreshadowing?
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Giving something, nonhuman or an object, human characteristics.
What is personification?
100
Language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation.
What is figurative language?
100
Anything used as a symbol or emblem to add meaning in a literary work.
What is allegory?
200
when the reader knows something but the characters do not.
What is dramatic irony?
200
Repetition of consonant sounds in the middle or end of words.
What is consonance?
200
A set of words that can have more than one meaning behind them.
What are idioms?
200
An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
What is an allusion?
200
when someone exaggerates or says one thing and means another.
What is verbal irony?
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Measurement of a poem's structure.
What is Meter?
300
Repetition of vowel sounds followed by differing consonant sounds.
What is assonance?
300
Spelling the way words sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
This figurative language appeals to the five senses.
What is imagery?
300
Contrast between what a reader or character expects and what actually exists or happens. (an unexpected situation)
What is situational irony?
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A pair of syllable, one unstressed followed by one stressed.
What is Iamb?
400
A story within a story; often two different narrators for each story.
What is Frame Narrative?
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The following sentence is an example of... "He drowned in a sea of grief"
What is metaphor?
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"Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get." This is an example of what.
What is a simile?
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The humorous use of a word, or of different words, sounded alike, so as to play on the many meanings.
What is a pun?
500
Ideas associated with a word. (royalty=crowns, robes, jewels, castles, etc.)
What is connotation?
500
Dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
500
saying less than what is true, usually for humor.
What is an understatement?
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A statement in which two word pairs share the same relationship. 
What is an analogy?
500
to mean exactly what you say, opposite of figurative language.
What is literal language?