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What is the author's TONE?
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His attitude about the subject.
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What is THEME?
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A theme is a broad idea, message, or moral of a story.
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What is symbol or symbolism?
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Symbolism is the practice of representing things by symbols.A symbol is an object, action, or idea that represents something other than itself.
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Metaphor
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A metaphor is used to call one thing another.
Example: Love is a rose. Life is a journey. |
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Hyperbole
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The sack weighs a ton!
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Repetition
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Repetition is the simple repeating of a word, within a sentence or a poetical line, with no particular placement of the words, in order to emphasize.
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Personification
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Giving human qualities to non-human things
Ex. The wind howled its mighty objection |
