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| climax | high point of interest in a literary work |
| irony | a contrast between what is expected to happen and what actually happens |
| satire | a literary work which mocks or ridicules the stupidity or vices of individuals, groups, institutions, or society in general |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else; implied comparison |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words to imitate sounds |
| repetition | the use, more than once, of any element of language- a sound, a word, a phrase, a clause, a sentence |
| symbol | anything that stands for or represents something else |
| parallelism | the repetition of words, phrases, or clauses that are similar in structure or meaning |
| rhythm | in language the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds |
| rhyme | repetition of sounds at ends of words |
| plot | the sequence of related events that make up a story or drama |
| alliteration | repetition of beginning consonant sounds |
| imagery | words or phrases that use descriptions to create pictures or images in the reader's mind |
| characterization | the method used to present the personality of a character |
| dialogue | a conversation |
| setting | the time and place in which the events of a literary work take place |
| simile | a comparison between two things through the use of specific words such as like, as, than, or resembles |
| personification | speaking of an animal or inanimate thing as if it were human |
| sonnet | a lyric poem of fourteen lines written in iambic pentameter |
