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1. Flashback- literary device that allows writers to show their audience specific events that happened before the current action of the story

2. Genre- category system that literature falls into based on specific conventions that develop to characterize the differences

3. irony- verbal, situational, or dramatic and has the result of the meaning, situation, or action being one thing but meaning something different

4. Parody- type of literary work that satirizes another work, its author, or the ideas presented

5. Satire- type of literary device where an author ridicules specific people, groups, or some aspect of society

6. Setting-where the story takes place

7. Sonnet- type of poem that has a specific rhyme or meter

8. Subplot- minor story that runs inside the main story

9. Symbol- concrete or physical object that represents an abstract concept

10. Tone- how the writer feels about his subject that comes through based upon the types of words chosen

11. mood- how the reader feels about the story

12. Theme- an abstraction that represents the central idea of the story

13. Narrator-tells the story either in the first, second, or third person point of view

14. Climax- the most exciting part of a story where all of the main conflicts comes together

15. Allusion- an intentional reference to another literary work or piece of art that the reader should understand in order to make connections

16. Foreshadowing-when the author hints at actions that will come in the future

17. Onamonapeia- word that describes words that represent sounds

18. Metaphor- comparison of two different things to make them more alike

19. Personification-when an author gives human traits to animals or some other lifeless object

20. Refrain- when an author gives human traits to animals or some other lifeless object

21. Imagery- a writer's vivid description that helps readers visualize

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