Literary Terms
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- Alliteration
- repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds in words that are close together
- Onomatopoeia
- use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning
- Simile
- figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like or as
- Imagery
- language that appeal to the senses
- 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
- Suspense
- uncertainty of anxiety the reader feels about what is goiing to happen next in the story
- Forshadowing
- the use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot
- Personification
- kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human
- 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
- Allusion
- the reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or pop culture
- Idiom
- an expression to a particular language that means something different from the literal meaning of each word