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| Atmosphere | Mood or feeling in a work of literature |
| Anachronism | Event or detail that is inappropriate for the time period |
| Assonance | Repetition of similar vowel sounds |
| Alliteration | Repetition of similar consonant sounds |
| Analogy | Comparison made between two things to show how they are alike |
| Allusion | Reference to a statement , person, place, event, or thing that is know from literature, history, religion, myth, politics, sports, science, or the arts |
| Dialogue | Conversation between two or more characters |
| Character | Individual in a story, poem, or play |
| Conflict | Struggle or clash between two opposing characters, forces, or emotions |
| Diction | Writer or speaker's choice of words |
| Theme | The central idea or insight revealed by a work of literature |
| Point of View | Vantage point from which a writer tells a story |
| Tone | The attitude a writer takes toward the reader, a subject, or a character |
| Flashback | Scene that interrupts the present action of the plot to show events that happened at an earlier time |
| Figure of Speech | Word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and that is not meant to be understood on a literal level |
| Hyperbole | Figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or create a comic effect |
| Pun | Play on the multiple meanings of a word or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings |
| Paradox | A statement or a situation that seems to be a contradiction but that reveals a truth |
| Onomatopoeia | Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning |
| Protagonist | Main character in fiction or drama |
| Connotations | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests |
| Dialect | Way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or group of people |
| Foil | Character who serves as a contrast to another character |
| Foreshadowing | The use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot |
| Idiom | Expression peculiar to a particular language that means something different from the literal meaning of the words |
| Setting | Time or place of a story or play |
| Narrative | Type of writing that tells about a series of related events |
| Imagery | Language that appeals to the senses |
| Irony | Contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality |
| Metaphor | Figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using a connective words such as like or as |
| Simile | Figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things by using a connective words such as like or as |
| Speaker | The voice that is talking to us in the poem |
| Personification | Type of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human |
| Suspense | The uncertainty or anxiety we fell about what is going to happen next in the story |
| Rhythm | Musical quality in language, produced by repetition |
