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14 Cards in this Set
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repetition of initial consonant sounds
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alliteration
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words that make imitate sounds
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onomatopoeia
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repetition of sounds at ends of words
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rhyme
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the pattern of strong and weak beats
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rhythm
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a literary device that stimulates ideas, assosiations and extra info in the readers mind with only a word or phrase
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allusion
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a scene within a story that interrupts the sequence of events to related events that occourred in the past
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flashback
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the authors use of clues to hint at what might happen later in the story
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foreshadowing
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a literary technique that involves surprising interesting or amusing contradictions. for instance dramatic irony is a contradiction between what a character thinks and feels and what the reader or audience knows to be true
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irony
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something concrete that stands for something elese such as an idea or emotion. the eagle is often used as a symbol
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sybol
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the way the author feels
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tone
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the way the author makes you feel
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mood
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a figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas
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simile
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a figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else
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metaphor
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a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics
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personification
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