| A | B |
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| flashback | stopping the action in a story and going back to an earlier time |
| foreshadowing | giving clues about things that will happen later in a story |
| hyperbole | figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration |
| imagery | words and phrases used to access the five senses in readers (a "sensory" experience) |
| onomatopoeia | Words whose sound imitates their meaning (hiss, etc) |
| theme | a topic, major idea, the big message behind a passage |
| cause & effect | describing events and their causes or consequences |
| chronological order | placing events in the order in which they happen |
| compare & contrast | describing the similarities and differences of two or more things |
| problem-solution | organizational structure showing a need or problem and one or more outcomes or solutions |
| genre | class or category of literature |
| viewpoint | opinion, the point from which a story is told |
