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Elements of Literature

AB
characterspeople or animals in the story
stylethe way something is written
tonethe writer's attitude toward the subject
moodthe feeling the writer wants the reader to get
foreshadowclues about what is going to happen in a narrative
flashbackwhen a character remembers something that happened in the past
figurative languagelanguage that goes beyond the meaning in the dictionary; creates images in a reader's head
personificationgiving human qualities to animals or things
synonym synonym nonyma word that means the same or almost the same
antonyma word that is the opposite of another word
analogya relationship between a pair of words that can be applied to a second pair
rhymewords that have the same ending sound
simileuse the words like or as to show comparison
metaphora way of describing something by comparing it to something else


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