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Literary Terms

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Literary Terms

AP English Lit. P.3 Sofia Palavecino

Allegory

A symbolic narrative
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Allusion

An indirect reference to something 
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Apostrophe

The symbol (') shows possession 
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Attitude

The way a person behaves toward something

Connotation

A second meaning to a word or phrase
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Denotation

The direct meaning of something
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Diction

An author's word choice

Euphemism

An indirect way of saying something

Foreshadowing

To show beforehand 
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Hyperbole

An exaggeration
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Imagery

Painting a picture in the reader's mind

Irony

Sarcasm

Metaphor

Something used to represent something else

Mood

A state of feeling at a particular time
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Metonymy

The substitution of a word referring to an attribute 
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Paradox

A statement that seems contradicting but expresses a possible truth
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Parody

An imitation of something
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Point-of-View

Stand-point; opinion
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Personification

Attribution of human characteristics to an inanimate object
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Onomatopoeia

The formation of a word by imitation of a sound
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Oxymoron

Contradictory terms used in conjuction 
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Satire

The use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule
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Simile

The use of "like" or "as" to compare two things
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Symbol

A representation of something

Synecdoche

Part for a whole; whole for a part

Tone

A person's voice; how they sound when they're talking
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