Important Words 2

Language used to stretch words beyond their dictionary meaning

• flashback
• figurative language
• metaphor
• simile

A scene that interrupts the present action to go back to an event that happened before.

• foreshadowing
• flashback
• infer
• hyperbole

Hints or clues about what is going to happen.

• foreshadowing
• flashback
• infer
• dialect

Come up with an idea or plan

• Formulate
• genre
• hyperbole
• justify

kind of literary work

• irony
• justify
• genre
• main idea

extreme exaggeration

• metaphor
• simile
• hyperbole
• irony

to come to a conclusion based on prior knowledge and clues from the passage

• flashback
• infer/inference
• irony
• justify

the opposite of what is expected

• flashback
• foreshadowing
• irony
• justify