Alliteration - Two words in close proximity with similar sounds, Allusion - An implied reference to (usually) a historical person, book, place, or song, Connotation - The emotional attachments of a word, Denotation - A dictionary meaning of a word, Figurative Language - Writing that doesn't mean what it says. It adds imagery, emotions, and depth, Flashback - something out of sequence in the story where the character goes back and remembers something, Foreshadow - Little clues to events that will happen in the story, Hyperbole - An overexaggeration, Imagery - Vivid descriptive language that appeals to the five senses, Irony - The unexpected happens, Dramatic Irony - When the audience knows something the character doesn't, Situational Irony - Something we would never expect to happen, Verbal Irony - Like sarcasm - the speaker says the opposite, Metaphor - Comparison between two unlike things (without using like or as), Mood - the atmosphere of a story and how it affects the emotions of the reader, Motif - Something that repeats itself, Nemesis - Enemy of the protaganist, Onomatopoeia - A word to represent a sound, Oxymoron - A two word phrase that contradicts itself, Paradox - A longer contradiction, Personification - Attributing human traits or emotions to inanimate objects, Point of View - The perspective from which the story is told, First Person POV - A person in the story is telling the story (I, me, we), Second Person POV - The narrator is talking to you, Third Person Limited POV - You are limited to know what people think; only a couple peoples POV, Third Person Objective POV - Just facts, no opinion, Third Person Omniscient POV - You can tell what everyone is thinking, Protagonist - the main character, Simile - A comparison of two unlike things using like or as, Symbolism - Something that represents or stands for something else,

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