Literary Terms - Week 1

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What is a simile?

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A comparison of two things using 'like' or 'as'.

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Foreshadowing

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Hints of things that will happen later in the story

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech that refers to one thing by mentioning another, implying they are alike.

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What is personification?

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Attributing human characteristics to non-human things.

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Alliteration

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The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

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Hyperbole

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An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally.

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Onomatopoeia

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A word that phonetically imitates the sound it describes.

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Imagery

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words that help you, as the reader, imagine the scene

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allusion

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reference to a piece of literature or history

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understatement

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Making less of something than it actually is