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What are words authors use to suggest meaning
What is Connotations
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The writers use to evoke pictures in the reader's mind.
What is: Imagery
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What is the relationship between Jesse and Dancing in the Rain?
What are: Traveling companions who may become enemies in war.
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A word that resembles the sound it describes
What is: Onomatopoeia
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A type of comparison
What is: Word Analogy
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Words that do not rhyme exactly
What is: What is: Slant Rhyme
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My aunt’s house was like a museum filled with precious objects from the past.
What is: Figure of Speech
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What details of the story reveal the time period?
What are: Their clothing and their talk of King George
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A contrast between expectation and reality
What is: Irony
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Poetry that does not conform to meter or rhyme.
What is: Free Verse
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A literary work is most often revealed by the writer’s choice of words
What is: Tone
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When the reader has to make inferences based on evidence in the text.
What is: Symbol
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What type of narration is the story Crossing Paths
What is: Omniscient
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A reference to something well known from literature, history, or religion
What is: Allusion
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Goes beyond the story's literal meaning
What is: Symbolic Meaning
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The reasons for a character’s actions
What is: Motivation
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Opposing arguments
What is: Counterclaims
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What literary device does the author use in the words “the forest, whose purple shadows welcomed him”?
What is: Personification - Giving of human characteristics to an object or animal
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An author may appeal to the audience’s reason through the use of statistics
What is: Persuasive Writing
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A story’s plot that influences the attitudes expressed in a story.
What is: Historical Period
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Style
What is: Determined by word choice and sentence structure
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Emotional Appeals
What are: A persuasive technique consisting of loaded language and anecdotes
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What is a universal theme of the story Crossing Paths? (Theme of a literary work is often implied, not stated.)
What is: People are people, anytime, anywhere
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Alliteration
What is: The repetition of the same consonant sounds in words that are close together
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Parallelism
What is: The repetition of phrases with the same grammatical structure.