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Alliteration

The repetition of same or similar sound at or near the beginning of a word in a series

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Allusion

Making a reference to literature, art, history, or pop culture

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Flashback

an interruption in the chronological narrative that tells about something as it happened before that point in the story

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Foreshadowing

The use of clues by the author providing hints on whats to come building suspence.

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Hyperbole

an extreme exageration

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Idiom

an expression where its literal meaning is not what it actually means

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Imagery

the picture that forms in the readers mind as the read

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Irony

the contrast between what is and what should be

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Metaphor

comparison between two things without using like of as

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Onomatopoeia

use of words to describe sounds

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Oxymoron

a self-contradicting combination of words

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Personification

non-human things taking human characteristics

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Pun

a play on words

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Rhetorical Question

a fake question

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Simile

comparison using like or as

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Symbolism

the use of symbols to represent something?

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Protagonist

The main character

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Antagonist

A character who opposes the main character

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1st Person

Told from POV of character

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2nd Person

Narrator is talking to the reader

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3rd Person

The Narrator is not part of the story

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Limited

narrator shares thoughts and feeling of one

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Omniscient

Narrator shares all characters thoughts and feelings

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Objective

Narrator only shares facts

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The 3 little pigs is told in

3rd person

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Which is an example of an oxymoron

That shirt is pretty ugly

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What are the pro-nouns for 2nd person

you/your

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What are the pro-nouns for 3rd person

he/she/they

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