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a twist or contrast between expectation and reality |
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| a contrast between what a writer or speaker meant and how his words are understood |
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| occurs when the audience or reader knows something important that a character does not know |
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| a contrast between what we would expect and what actually happens |
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| the reason(s) a character does something |
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| the overall lesson an author wants the reader to learn from a literary work |
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| the reason an author writes (to inform, persuade, or entertain) |
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| giving hints about what will happen in a story |
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| the writer’s attitude about his subject |
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| not meant to be taken literally |
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| comparison using like or as |
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| comparison without using like or as |
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giving human qualities to something that isn’t human |
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| repeating the consonant sound at the beginning of nearby words |
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| repeating a vowel sound (with different consonant sounds) in nearby words |
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| musical quality in language produced by repetition |
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a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry |
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| meter that has the pattern unstressed-stressed |
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meter consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet, each foot containing an unstressed syllable and a stressed syllable |
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| joke based on two words that sound alike or almost alike |
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