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| alliteration | repetition of the same consonant sound for effect (warm, windy,wet) |
| allusion | a reference to something or someone famous |
| antagonist | the person or thing working against the protagonist, or hero, of the work |
| characterization | way the author uses to create or describe a character; may use dialog, action, description of how a character looks or what he/she is thinking |
| conflict | the problem or struggle in a story that triggers the action |
| dialogue | what a character or characters actually say; in quotation marks; shows plot or thought or action |
| diction | author's choice of words basedon their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness |
| flashback | author takes the story back in time to a previous event or events |
| foreshadowing | giving hints or clues of what is to come in the future of the story |
| genre | refers to a category or type of literature based on its style, form, and content |
| hyperbole | an exaggeration or overstatement |
| imagery | word or phrases used to create a picture for the reader |
| irony | a contridiction: between what is said and what is meant, or when the opposite happens of what you expect to happen |
| metaphor | a comparison between two things that doesn't use "like" or "as" |
| mood | feeling the text arouses in a reader: happiness, peacefulness, sadness, and so on |
| motif | term for an often-repeated idea or theme in literature |
| onomatopeia | use of words that imitate the sounds of their meaning ( the bees buzzed) |
| allegory | a story in which characters represent abstract qualities or ideas. |
| connotation | the feeling or emotion a word brings to your mind (cultural association to the word) |
| denotation | the dictionary meaning of a word |
| onomatopoeia | use of words to imitate the sounds of their meaning |
| anecdote | a little story, often amusing, inserted ina n essay or a speech to help reinforce the thesis. |
| catharsis | when a character experiences an emotional cleansing. |
