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What is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words?
Alliteration
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What is a contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality?
Irony
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What is the action of a play or story that works out the decision made during the climax?
Falling Action
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What is the arrangement of lines in poetry?
Stanza
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What is a form of literature that tells a story and deals with the sequence of events or experiences?
Narrative
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What is going back to an earlier time in a story to make something in the present clearer?
Motif
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What is the method an author uses to create the appearance and personality of a fictional character?
Characterization
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What is a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion to make a point?
Hyperbole
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What are the combination of contradictory terms to create a new term?
Oxymoron
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What is the time and place of the action in a story?
Setting
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What is a reference within literature to another well-known character, place or time?
Allusion
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What are words used for descriptive effect in order to convey ideas or emptions?
Figurative Language
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What is the "word pictures" that writers create to evoke an emotional response?
Imagery
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What is the perspective or attitude of the narrator in a story?
Point of View
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What is a concrete thing used to represent something larger and more abstract?
Symbol
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What is the repetition of vowel sounds in a line or sentence?
Assonance
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What is the repetition of identical consonant sounds before or after differing vowel sounds?
Consonance
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What is giving hints of what is to come later in the story?
Foreshadowing
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What are character types, images, or patterns that recur frequently in the literature of a culture?
Archetype
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What is the comparison of two unlike things, saying one is the other?
Metaphor
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What is the use of a word or phrase that imitates or suggests the sound that it makes?
Onomatopeia
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What is a slight variation of a language spoken within a particular region or class?
Dialect
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What is an author's attitude toward the subject or audience?
Tone
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What is tSettinghe central message of a work of literature often expressed as a general statement about life?
Theme
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What is Giving inanimate objects human characteristics?
Personification
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