Literary Terms

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Writing that ridicules something, often in order to bring about change

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Satire

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Language that appeals to the senses

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imagery

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an interruption in the action of a plot to tell what happened at an earlier time

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flashback

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the attitude a writer takes toward his or her subject, characters, and audience

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tone

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one telling the story

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narrator

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The use of words whose sounds imitate or suggest their meaning

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onomatopoeia

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a kind, or type, as of works of literature, art, or popular fiction

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genre

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a poem normally of 14 lines in any of several rhyme schemes

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sonnet

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a reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, the arts, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, or science

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allusion

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a contrast between expectation and reality

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irony