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7.  B. Plot B. Plot  C. Inference C. Inference  A. Climax A. Climax  D. Rhyme D. Rhyme What is the action in a story?

8. Back to Board  B. 100 answer

9.  A. Inference A. Inference  C. Foreshadowing C. Foreshadowing  B. Suspense B. Suspense  D. Plot D. Plot What is the technique used by authors that hints at what will happen later in the story?

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11.  A. Biography A. Biography  C. Short Story C. Short Story  B. Autobiography B. Autobiography  D. Drama D. Drama What is a persons account of his or her own life?

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13.  D. Ballad D. Ballad  C. Elegy C. Elegy  B. Ode B. Ode  A. Epic A. Epic What is a song or songlike poem that tells a story?

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15.  A. Dialogue A. Dialogue  C. Denotation C. Denotation  D. Diction D. Diction  B. Dialect B. Dialect A way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain group of people.

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17.  A. Dialogue A. Dialogue  C. Imagery C. Imagery  B. Connotation B. Connotation  D. Irony D. Irony Language that appeals to the five senses.

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19.  A. Metaphor A. Metaphor  C. Personification C. Personification  B. Simile B. Simile  D. Hyperbole D. Hyperbole “The sun was shining like a new penny” is an example of:

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21.  A. Ballad A. Ballad  C. Free Verse C. Free Verse  B. Lyric B. Lyric  D. Narrative D. Narrative Poetry without regular meter or rhyme scheme

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23.  A. Personification A. Personification  D. Metaphor D. Metaphor “The sun was a huge unblinking eye” is an example of:  C. Understatement C. Understatement  B. Simile B. Simile

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25. A difference between what is said and what is really meant.  A. Dialect A. Dialect  C. Fiction C. Fiction  B. Flashback B. Flashback  D. Verbal Irony D. Verbal Irony

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27.  A. Lyric Poem A. Lyric Poem A poem that expresses the feelings or thoughts of a speaker rather than telling a story.  C. Epic C. Epic  B. Narrative Poem B. Narrative Poem  D. Ballad D. Ballad

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29.  B. Onomatopoeia B. Onomatopoeia The use of words that imitate sounds:  A. Diction A. Diction  C. Irony C. Irony  D. Adjective D. Adjective

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31.  C. Point of view C. Point of view The vantage point from which a story is told  A. Characterization A. Characterization  B. Rhyme B. Rhyme  D. Dialogue D. Dialogue

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33.  C. Protagonist C. Protagonist The main character in a work of literature  A. Susan A. Susan  D. Anagonist D. Anagonist  B. Speaker B. Speaker

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35.  A. Theme A. Theme The general idea or insight about life that a work of literature reveals  B. Main Idea B. Main Idea  D. Suspense D. Suspense  C. Tragedy C. Tragedy

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