Literary Elements

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What is Direct Characterization?

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Direct Characterization is when the author explicitly tells the audience what a character is like.

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What is Verbal Irony?

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Verbal Irony is a type of irony where a speaker says one thing but means another.

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What is Personification?

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Personification is giving human characteristics to non-human things.

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What is Setting in literature?

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Setting refers to the time and place in which a story occurs.

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What is an Allusion?

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An Allusion is a reference to a well-known person, place, event, or work of literature.

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What is Mood in literature?

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Mood is the emotional atmosphere that a piece of writing creates for the reader.

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What is Theme?

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Theme is the central idea or message that a story conveys.

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What is Conflict in literature?

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Conflict is the struggle between opposing forces in a story, which drives the plot.

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What is Foreshadowing?

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Foreshadowing is a literary device used to give an indication or hint of what is to come later in the story.

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What is a Simile?

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A Simile is a figure of speech that compares two different things using 'like' or 'as'.