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| point of view | the perspective, or vantage point, from which a story is told |
| setting | the time and place of the action |
| style | the distinctive way in which an author uses language |
| theme | the central message, concern, or purpose. It can usually be expressed as a generalization, or general statement, about people or life. |
| tone | a reflection of a writer’s or speaker’s attitude toward a subject of a poem, story, or other literary work |
| figure of speech | a specific device or kind of figurative language, such as hyperbole, metaphor, personification, simile, or understatement |
| metaphor | a type of speech that compares or equates two or more things that have something in common NOT using like or as |
| simile | figure of speech that compares seemingly unlike things using like or as |
| oxymoron | a figure of speech that is a combination of seemingly contradictory words |
| personification | is a figure of speech in which an animal, object, force of nature, or idea is given human qualities or characteristics |
| alliteration | the repetition of sounds, most often consonant sounds, at the beginning of words |
