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Alliteration |
repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds in words that are close together |
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Onomatopoeia |
use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning |
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Simile |
figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like or as |
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Imagery |
language that appeal to the senses |
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Flashback |
the scene in a movie, play, short story, novel, or narrative poem that interrupts the present action of the plot to flash backward and tell what happened at an earlier time |
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Suspense |
uncertainty of anxiety the reader feels about what is goiing to happen next in the story |
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Forshadowing |
the use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot |
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Personification |
kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human |
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Metaphor |
figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, in which on thing becomes another without the use of like or as |
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Allusion |
the reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or pop culture |
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Idiom |
an expression to a particular language that means something different from the literal meaning of each word |
