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MCA Literary Terms Review

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Simile
Compares 2 unlike things using like or as
Metaphor
Compares 2 unlike things without using like or as
Hyperbole
An exaggeration
Personification
Gives qualities of a person to an animal, object or idea
Tone
How the author feels about the topic
Mood
My Mood, my feeling about the topic
Allusion
A reference made to a famous person, place, book, or event
Foreshadowing
Providing clues or hints about the future
Flashback
A scene that interrupts the action of a story to show a previous event
Alliteration
Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words
Consonance
Repetition of 2 or more consonant letters within a sentence or phrase
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds within a sentence or phrase
Onomatopoeia
Sounds are spelled out as words
Pun
Word play; play on words
Idiom
A phrase that cannot be understood from the meaning of its separate words
Irony
The use of words that mean the opposite of what you really think, especially in order to be funny
Parallelism
The use of similar or identical words or phrases in different parts of the text
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