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| alliteration | the repeating of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words |
| assonance | the repeating of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually in stressed syllables, that is usually followed by different consonant sounds |
| characterization | the various means by which an author describes & develops characters |
| direct characterization | the author directly describes the character |
| indirect characterization | the author provides the audience with information for them to make inferences about the character |
| flashback | a scene or series of scenes that interrupts the present action of a narrative work to depict some earlier event |
| foreshadowing | a hint or hints that prepare the reader for an event or events in the future |
| hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses extreme exaggeration |
| idiom | a figure of speech that is a phrase or expression that is not meant to be taken literally |
| imagery | a detailed description that enables the reader to experience the text with his/her senses |
| irony | a contradiction between expectation & reality |
| dramatic irony | a contradiction between a character’s perception & what the audience knows to be true |
| situational irony | a contradiction between expectation & reality under certain circumstances |
| verbal irony | a contradiction between what a speaker or writer says & what he or she believes to be true |
| metaphor | a figure of speech that compares two dissimilar things |
| meter | the pattern of stressed & unstressed syllables in poetry |
| onomatopoeia | the use or creation of words that represent sounds/sound effects |
| personification | the process of giving humanlike characteristics to anything non-human (animal or non-living object) |
| pun | a play on words that takes advantage of words with multiple meanings or words with similar spellings &/or pronunciation |
| repetition | the repeating of word parts, words, phrases, sentences, or groups of sentences, usually for emphasis |
| rhyme | the repetition of identical vowel sounds in the stressed syllable of two or more words, as well as all subsequent sounds |
| end rhyme | a rhyme that occurs at the ends of lines in a poem |
| internal rhyme | a rhyme that occurs within a line in a poem |
| perfect rhyme | a rhyme in which the last stressed vowel and all following sounds are identical in both words |
| slant rhyme | a rhyme with an imperfect match in sound |
| eye rhyme | a set of words that do not rhyme in actuality but appear that they would rhyme based on spelling |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of end rhyme in a poem |
| rhythm | the beat or pattern of language |
| simile | a figure of speech that compares two dissimilar things using “like” or “as” |
| symbolism | the practice of attributing symbolic meanings like ideas or qualities to things |
