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| alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words |
| allusion | an implied or indirect reference in literature to a familiar person, place, or event |
| analysis | the process or result of identifying the parts of a whole and their relationship to one another |
| author's purpose | the author's intent to either inform or teach someone about something, to entertain people or to persuade or convince their audience to do or not do something |
| author's thesis | the topic and a specific feeling or idea associated with it |
| autobiography | the story of a person's life written by himself or herself |
| biobraphy | The story of a person's life written by someone other than the subject of the work |
| cause and effect | cause statements stem form actions and events, and effects are what happen as a result of the action or event |
| characterization | the method an author uses to reveal characters and their various personalities |
| climax | the turning point in a narratibve, the moment when the conflict is at its most intense |
