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| alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words |
| euphemism | milder, less direct term that means the same thing as one that is considered harsh or blunt |
| flashback | interrupts the plot of a story and goes back to a past event |
| foreshadowing | future events in a story are suggested or hinted to by the author before they happen |
| hyperbole | a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect |
| idiom | an expression of a given language that is peculiar to itself grammatically or cannot be understood from the individual meaning of its elements |
| imagery | an author's use of descriptive and figurative language to create a picture in the reader's mind |
| metaphor | a comparison that states that one thing is something else, but it does NOT use like or as |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects they refer to or actions they refer to |
| personification | a figure of speech in which things are given human qualities or human form |
| repetition | author repeats certain words or groups of words for emphasis |
| rhyme | repetition of the same or similar sounds in words |
| simile | a comparison using "like" or "as" |
| symbolism | practice of representing things by means of symbols |
