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FREE LANGUAGES AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT LITERARY
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Question 1: internal conflict
Answer:
man vs. self/man vs. society
Question 2: irony
Answer:
Special kind of contrast between appearance and reality-usually one in which reality is the opposite of what it seems.
Question 3: mood
Answer:
A feeling, in the reader, the author creates through his/her word choice.
Question 4: theme
Answer:
The lesson of a story.
Question 5: external conflict
Answer:
man vs. man/man vs. nature
Question 6: hyperbole
Answer:
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
Question 7: narration
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The point of view from which a story is told.
Question 8: metaphor
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Comparison of two things that are basically unlike but have some qualities in common.
Question 9: alliteration
Answer:
The repetition of a consonant sound.
1) Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers 2) cool cat
Question 10: climax
Answer:
The point in a story when the protagonist faces his/her conflict
Question 11: personification
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The giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea.
Question 12: foreshadowing
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Clues that suggest events that have yet to occur.
Question 13: autobiography
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It is the author's account of his/her own life.
Question 14: allusion
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Reference in literature to a familiar person or event.
Question 15: biography
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A story of a person's life by another person.
Question 16: resolution
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How a story ends
Question 17: onomatopoeia
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Is the use of words that imitate sounds.
Question 18: antagonist
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Goes against the protagonist.
Question 19: verbal irony
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A person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning.
Question 20: tone
Answer:
The author's feeling toward his/her subject.