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| Aim | A writer's purpose or goal for writing. |
| Apostrophe | A poem that addresses an object or person directly. |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech in which one thing is spokenor written about as if it were another. |
| Parallelism | The expression of similar ideas in a similar way. |
| Conflict | A struggle between two people or things in a literary work. |
| Theme | The central idea in a leterary work. |
| Autobiography | The story of a person's life, written by that person. |
| Science fiction | Imaginative literature based on scientific principles, discoveries, or laws. |
| Image | Language that describes something that can be seen, heard, touched, tasted, or smelled. |
| Speaker | The voice that speaks, or narrates, a literary work. |
| Allegory | A literary work in which each part stands for, or symbolizes, something else. |
| Personification | A figure of speech in which womething not human is described as if it were human. |
| Exposition | The part of a plot that introduces the setting and the major characters. |
| Irony of Situation | An event that contradicts teh expectations of the characters, the reader, or the audience of a literary work. |
| Motivation | The force that moves a character to think, feel, or behave in a certain way. |
| Tone | The writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject. |
| Understatement | A statement that treats something important as though in were not important. |
| Repetition | The use, again, of a sound, word, or group of words. |
| Symbol | A thing that stands for or represents both itself and something else. |
| Anecdote | A brief story, usually told to make a point. |
| Motif | Anything that appears repeatedly in one or more wroks of literature, art, or music. |
| Alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of syllables. |
| Setting | The time and place in which a literary work happens. |
| Flashback | A part of a story, poem, or play that presents events that happened at an earlier time. |
| Concrete | A word that refers to something that can be directly seen, tasted, touched, heard, or smelled. |
| Irony | A difference between appearance and reality. |
