Lit terms

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Characterization

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The method an offer uses to review or describe the characters personality

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Allusion

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A reference to a person, place, event, or thing that is considered common knowledge

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Foreshadowing

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Hints or clues about what will happen in the story

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Irony

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When the outcome of events is contrary to what a reader might have expected

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Foil

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A character who serves to accentuate that the main characters distinctive qualities

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Juxtaposition

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Placing two ideas or images side-by-side so that their closeness creates a new often ironic meaning

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Point of view

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The vantage point from which the events of the story are told

First-person narrator uses I , third person narrator uses he she they

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Mood

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the feeling a piece of literature arouses and the reader through the authors choice of details

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Diction

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The authors choice of words based on the effect he or she wants to create

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Flashback

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Presenting an image or seen from an earlier time in the story for the purpose of making something in the present clear

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Tone

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The writers attitude towards the subject or characters he or she is writing about

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Syntax

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The order and a relationship of words in the sentence, sentence structure

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Analogy

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A comparison of the light features of two or more things

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Simile

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A comparison between two unlike items using like or as

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Metaphor

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A comparison between two unlike things that didn’t not use the words like or as

Example: her cheeks were shiny red apples

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Personification

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Giving qualities human traits

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Onomatopoeia

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The use of words that immitates the sound it describes

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Alliteration

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The repetition of the initial constant in a series of words that appear close together
Example : Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

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Oxymoron

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The combination of contradictory terms

Example: silent scream, cool kindness

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Imagery

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The words or phrases a writer selects to create a picture in the mind of the reader

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Conflict

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The struggle between two opposing forces that forms the basis for the plot
Internal conflict: person versus self
Extra conflict: person versus nature, person versus person