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Lit terms #2

  • Game Code: 16949
  •  English    16     Public
    literary devices
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  • Theme
    central message or insight of life revealed
  •  15
  • Conflict
    a struggle between two opposing forces
  •  15
  • 1st Person Point of View
    when a character in the story tells the story
  •  15
  • 3rd Person Limited Point of View
    when a voice outside the story tells the story, but only through one character’s eyes
  •  15
  • 3rd Person Omniscient Point of View
    all-knowing third person narrator who can tell readers what any character thinks or feels
  •  15
  • Narrator
    a speaker or character who tells a story
  •  15
  • Flashback
    a section of a literary work that interrupts the sequence of events to relate an event from an earlier time
  •  15
  • Allusion
    a reference to a well-known person, place, event, and literary work
  •  15
  • Foreshadowing
    the use of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur; hints about the future events
  •  15
  • 1st Person Point of View
    when a character in the story tells the story
  •  20
  • 3rd Person Limited Point of View
    when a voice outside the story tells the story, but only through one character’s eyes
  •  25
  • Suspense
    feeling of curiosity or uncertainty about the outcome of events in a literary work
  •  25
  • literal meaning of a word
    denotation
  •  15
  • literal meaning of a word
    denotation
  •  20
  • figurative meaning of a word
    connotation
  •  5
  • a short summary of an event; short stories that illustrate a greater point
    anecdote
  •  25
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