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