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Example: Time is a thief that steals our moments.

Metaphor

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Example: In To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout recalls memories of her childhood that reveal themes and motivations.

Flashback

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giving human qualities to inanimate objects

Personification

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lifesaver

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shark

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gift

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baam

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direct statement of comparison between two things highlighting one shared quality

Metaphor

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an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time form the current point

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seesaw

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fairy

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thief

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thief

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rocket

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rocket

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baam

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suggestions or warnings about events to come are dropped or planted

Foreshadowing

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repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words Imagery – vivid language used by authors to appeal to our five senses

Alliteration

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Example: The wind whispered secrets through the ancient forest.

Personification

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Example: Harry Potter vs. Voldemort (Person vs. Person).

Conflict

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when two unlike things are compared using the words “like” or “as”

Simile

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boom

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star

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shark

Other team loses 15 points!

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banana

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In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet says, "Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, as one dead in the bottom of a tomb," foreshadowing Romeo’s death.

Foreshadowing

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