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| Alliteration | The repeating of beginning consonant sounds |
| Allusion | A reference to a person, place, or thing. |
| Atmosphere(Mood) | The overall emotional feeling that the details the author uses creates. |
| Character Traits | The qualities that make up a character's personality. |
| Action | Real or fictional events that comprise the subject of a novel, story, poem, or play. |
| Irony | A literary technique that involves surprising, interesting, or amusing contradictions. |
| Characterization | The way a writer presents a character in a story. |
| Flat Character | A one dimensional character that shows only a single personality trait and stays that way throughout the story. |
| Round Character | A character that shows several sides to their personality. |
| Analogy | An explanation which compares similar people, places, things, or ideas. |
| Chronological Order | Events that follow one another in proper time order. |
| Climax | The point of greatest emotional impact in a story. |
| Conflict | A struggle between two opposing forces. |
| Dialogue | A direct conversation between characters. |
| Flashback | A scene that is inserted into a story showing events that occurred in the past. |
| Foreshadowing | The use of hints or clues to suggest action before it happens. |
| Genre | A category of literature. |
| Hyperbole | An obvious exaggeration used to emphasize a point of add excitement and humor to a story. |
| Idiom | An expression that has a meaning of its own which is different that the literal meaning of the words. |
| Inference | A conclusion based on evidence. |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech that compares two unlike things and does not use the words like, as, or than to make the comparison. |
| Motive | An emotion or need that causes a person to act in a certain way. |
| Onomatopoeia | Words that are spelled the way they sound. |
| Personification | To give human qualities or traits to lifeless objects or abstract qualities. |
| Action | Real or fictional events that make up the subject of a novel, story, poem, or play. |
