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| Onomatopoeia | the formation or use of a word that imitates the sound associated with something |
| Mood | the reader's attitude toward the text |
| Tone | the author/narrator's attitude toward the text |
| inference | the process of reasoning from a premise to a conclusion |
| viewpoint | a personal perspective from which somebody considers something (1st person, 3rd person limited, 3rd person omnicient) |
| assonance | the similarity of two or more vowel sounds or the repetition of tow or more consonant sounds |
| consonance | a close similarity between consonants or groups of consonants, especially the end of words |
| irony | something said or written that uses humor based on words suggesting the opposite of their literal meaning |
| alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| simile | a comparison using like or as |
| allusion | a reference in literature to something well known, i.e. place, event, etc. |
| idiom | a figure of speech containing a group of words collective implied meaning is quite different from their literal meaning |
| metaphor | a comparison of two unlike things usually stating something "is" or "was" another thing |
| hyperbole | exaggeration in literature |
| personification | giving inanimate objects human-like characteristics |
