Literary Terms

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What is personification?

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Giving human qualities to an inanimate object.

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What is a flashback?

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An interruption in the plot to recreate an event from an earlier time.

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What is rising action?

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The main part of the story where the complications arise.

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What is a protagonist?

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The main character in a story.

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What is resolution?

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The end of the story where the problem is resolved.

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What is a metaphor?

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A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as.'

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What is a simile?

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A figure of speech that compares two different things using 'like' or 'as.'

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What is alliteration?

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The repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words.

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What is foreshadowing?

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A literary device used to give an indication or hint of what is to come later in the story.

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What is the climax of a story?

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The most intense, exciting, or important point of the story.