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What is climax ?
The part of the plot where the greatest action or suspense occurs is known as what?
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What is a simile?
"The boy ran like the wind" is an example of what literary term?
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What is the character ?
What literary term is defined as a person or animal that takes part in the action of a literary work?
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What is the rising action?
The part of the plot where the action begins is known as what?
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What is the setting?
The time and place of the action in a literary work is known as what?
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What is the setting?
The time and place of the action in a literary work is known as what?
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What is the falling action?
The part of the plot where the action is starting to come to a close is known as what?
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What is personification?
When something nonhuman is given human characteristics, this is known as what literary term?
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What is the plot?
What literary term can be defined as the sequence of events in a literary work?
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What is the resolution?
The part of the plot where all "loose ends" are tied up and the problem(s) have been solved is known as what?
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What is irony?
A contradiction between what is expected and what happens in reality or between what is said and what is really meant describes what literary term?
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What is a symbol?
Anything that stands for or represents something else is known as what literary term? Example: the word "Game" in "The Most Dangerous Game"
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What is the exposition?
The part of the plot where the characters, setting, and conflict are introduced is known as what?
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What is alliteration?
A repetition of the same beginning consonant sound, this is known as the literary term?
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What is theme
The central message or insight to life revealed through a literary work is the definition of which literary term?
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