| Term | Definition |
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| flashback | a section of a literary work that interrupts the sequence of events to relate an event from an earlier time |
| foreshadowing | the use in a literary work of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur |
| hyperbole | a deliberate exaggeration or overstatement |
| image | a word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the five senses--sight, hearing, touch, taste, or smell |
| imagery | the descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create work pictures fro the reader |
| indirect characterization | a method of characterization in which an author tells what a character looks like, does, and says and how other characters react to him or her. it is up to the reader to draw conclusions about the character based on this indirect information |
| inversion | a change in the normal word order |
| irony | the general name given to literary techniques that involve differences between appearance and reality, expectation and result, or meaning and intention |
| irony of situation | in this type of irony an event occurs that directly contrasts the expectations of the characters, the reader, or the audience |
| juxtaposition | a poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed placed next to one another |
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