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| alliteration | repition of the initial consonant |
| consonance | repitition of consonant sounds |
| allusion | brief reference to a person, event, or place |
| assonance | repitition of vowel sounds |
| details | help to support the main idea |
| diction | your choice of words, includes formal, neutral, and informal |
| hyperbole | exaggeration to effet an emotional response |
| metaphor | comparison not using like or as |
| oxymoron | two contradictory words used together |
| simile | a comparison using like or as |
| enhance | making something better |
| laceration | a cut or slice |
| tranquil | calm, serene |
| hasten | hurry |
| covert | undercover, hidden |
| plagiarism | to take credit for someone else's work |
| blatant | straight forward, "straight up" |
| plethora | a sizeable amount, a lot of something |
| pliable | bendable |
| tangible | able to be touched, real |
| flashback | action that looks to the past to explain what is happening in the story |
| foreshadowing | the use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen in the story |
| imagery | language that evokes one or all of the five senses |
| verbal irony | sarcasm, when the words spoken mean the opposite of their defined meaning |
| dramatic irony | when the audience knows something that the actors on stage do not know |
| mood | the emotional attitude that the author takes towards their subject |
| motivation | the reason why a character acts, feels, or thinks |
| narrative | any writing that tells a story |
| onomatopeia | a word that imitates the sound it represents |
| personification | giving human qualities to animals or objects |
| contemplated | thought about |
| ominously | dark and forboding; sense that something bad is about to happen |
| pugnacious | disgusted |
| derogatory | negative, putting down |
| reprehensible | horrible, terrible behavior |
| aloof | set apart from the crowd, loner |
| fawning | showing affection |
| woe | an expression of sadness |
| writhed | twisted and squirmed |
| imply | to say something in a round-about way |
| protagonist | the good guy of the story |
| antagonist | the bad guy in the story |
| Formal diction | language that is professional, proper, or well education |
| neutral diction | neither formal or informal, this diction has a mixture of both |
| informal diction | low diction; texting, slang, profanity |
| round character | characters that are multi-dimensional; usually the protagonist; detailed enough to seem real |
| flat character | characters who are one sided and less developed; stock characters such as the air head or the tough guy |
| dynamic characters | characters who go through significant changes during the course of the story |
| static characters | characters who do not change in the course of the story and remain stable throughout the course of the story |
