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| Antithesis | Contrasting words or ideas by asserting something and then denying by |
| Chiasmus | Change of word order to get the reader’s attention and to highlight |
| Dialogue | A conversation between characters in a story or play |
| Hyperbole | An exaggeration |
| Idiom | An expression that cannot be understood from the literal meaning of its |
| Irony | The use of tone, exaggeration, or understatement to suggest the opposite |
| Conflict | a struggle between opposing characters or opposing forces. |
| Personification | The linking of a human quality or ability to a nonhuman thing |
| Connotation | The feeling or attitude associated with a word, related to but quite |
| Denotation | The literal meaning of the word |
| Allegory | Links the objects, characters, and events of a story with meanings |
| Form | The structure or arrangement of elements in literature |
| Moral | The lesson that a story or fable teaches. |
| Sequence | The order in which events occur or ideas are presented |
| Stanza | A group of related lines in a poem |
| Theme | The message about life or nature that the author wants the reader to get |
| Palindrome | A word or phrase that is spelled the same forwards as backward. |
| Cliché | An overused phrase |
| Oxymoron | The use of words with contradictory or clashing ideas next to one another. |
| Imagery | the author's use of decription and words to create vivid pictures or images in the reader's mind |
| Figure of Speech | words or phrases that have meaings different from the literal meanings, such as metaphors and similes |
| Simile | A comparison of two unlike things using like or as |
| Metaphor | A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as |
| Onomatopoeia | Words in which the sound suggest the meaning of the word |
| Point of View | how the story is told |
| First Person | the story is told using "I" |
| Third Person Omniscient | the story is told where the narrator knows everything about the characters and what they are thinking; they use he, she, and they pronouns |
| Conflict | the struggle between opposing characters or opposing forces |
| Man-VS-Man | Two characters struggling against each other |
| Man-VS-Self | A character dealing with an internal struggle |
| Man-VS-Nature | A character or characters struggling against nature and natural forces |
| Man-VS-Technology | A character stuggling against some form of technology |
| Flashback | An interruption of the present action of the plot to show events that have happened at an earlier time |
| Foreshadowing | The use of clues and hints to suggest that will occur later in the plot |
| Inference | A guess or conclusion based on known facts, hints, or evidence |
| Character | people, animals, things in a story of writing that do the action |
| Setting | the time and place in which the story happens |
| Plot | the storyline or the events of the story |
| Alliteration | two or more words in a sequence that have the same sound |
| Protagonist | the "good" character in a story; the hero |
| Antagonist | the "bad" character in a story; the villain |
| Genre | a category or type of writing, such as fiction and nonfiction, biography, adventure, and science |
| Narrator | the teller of the story |
