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Plot:The sequence of events in a literary work.
Protagonist:The main character in a literary work.
Narrator:person telling the story.
Imagery:language that appeals to the five senses.
Hyperbole:extreme exaggeration to add meaning.
Personification:figure of speech in which non human things are given human characteristics.
Rhyme:repetition of similar or identical sounds.
Satire:literature that mocks or ridicules.
Setting:the time and place of a literary work.
Speaker:voice in a poem(the person that is speaking).
Stanza:group of lines forming a unit in a poem.
Simile:a direct comparison of dissimilar objects usually using like or as.
Tone:the authors attitude toward the subject of a work.
Motif:a recurring feature of a literary work that is related to the theme.
Suspense:technique that keeps the reader guessing what will happen next.
Soliloquy:a dramatic device in which a character is alone and speaks his or her thoughts aloud.
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The sequence of events in a literary work.
The main character in a literary work.
person telling the story.
language that appeals to the five senses.
extreme exaggeration to add meaning.
figure of speech in which non human things are given human characteristics.
repetition of similar or identical sounds.
literature that mocks or ridicules.
the time and place of a literary work.
voice in a poem(the person that is speaking).
group of lines forming a unit in a poem.
a direct comparison of dissimilar objects usually using like or as.
the authors attitude toward the subject of a work.
a recurring feature of a literary work that is related to the theme.
technique that keeps the reader guessing what will happen next.
a dramatic device in which a character is alone and speaks his or her thoughts aloud.