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What is the repetition of an initial consonant sound such as "P"eter "p"icked a "p"eck of "p"ickled "p"eppers
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alliteration
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What is the author doing when he hints about something that is going to happen?
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foreshadowing
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A comparison in which an object or person is said to be something else is called a what?
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metaphor
Example: But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun |
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What is a story in which its parts - characters, setting, etc. - should also be understood as having a second, deeper meaning other than the literal one.. Give an example of one.
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Allegory
Example: Animal Farm and Pilgrim's Progress are both allegories. Their meaning goes beyond the literal. |
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The retelling of a time which pre-dates the present. an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point
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Flashback
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What is a figure of speech in which statements are exaggerated to create an impact and are not supposed to be interpreted literally.
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Hyperbole - These are some examples of it:
•I am so tired I could sleep for a year. •I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse right now. •He is older than the hills. •I will die if she asks me to dance. •She is as big as an elephant! |
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What is it when a vowel sound within a word is repeated in a series of words? LIke this:
The old goat stowed aboard the boat. Notice the repetition of the long o sound. |
assonance
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What do you call it when you refer to something that everyone has a common knowledge of? For instance in the sentence Harriet Tubman is called “the Moses of her people”. The reference to Moses is something most people would understand.
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Allusion
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Language that appeals to the senses is called what? It appeals to hearning, smelling, seeing, etc..It makes and imaginary world seem real help a reader mentally experience what the characters in the literary selection are actually experiencing.
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Imagery
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What is the literary device where there isa an implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant.
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irony
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What is the literary device with rhyming within a line.
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internal rhyme
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What is two words that "negate" one another like the words black light or pretty ugly or small crowd.
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oxymoron
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What is personification?
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It is when you give human characteristics to animals or objects. Animal Farm had lots of personification throughout.
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A comparison in which an object or person is said to be like something else.
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Simile
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using an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning.
Example would be snake = evil white=purity |
Symbol
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What is perceptional biases?
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human tendencies that interfere w/ accurately perceiving
& interpreting messages from others |
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What do you call the attitude that an author takes toward his subject he is writing?
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Mood - it is similar to the tone the author takes toward the characters or events.
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What literary device reveals a truth that at first seems contradictory because two opposing ideas are presnted. Ex. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage.
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Paradox
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What do we call combing two words to make a new one? For instance ginormous is a combinatin of gigantic and enormous.
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pormanteau
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What is is a figure of speech which consists of a deliberate confusion of similar words or phrases for rhetorical effect, whether humorous or serious.
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Pun
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