A variety of language used in a particular region or by members of a particular group. Dialects may differ from the standard form of the language in vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation.
Dialect
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the feeling or emotion an author evokes in the reader through the use of sensory words or phrases.
Mood
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a main idea that the author attempts to convey to the reader. (the hardships of coming of age.)
Theme
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the use of exaggeration to make a point.
Hyperbole
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the act of placing two things side by side for comparison or contrast.
Juxtaposition
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an expression that does not literally mean what it says, but has a different, understood meaning.
Idiom
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the use of exaggeration to make a point
Hyperbole
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a difference between what is expected and what actually happens.
Irony
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this contrasts ideas and words in parallel sentence structure.
Antithesis
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saying something that means the opposite of what is said
Verbal Irony
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Example of what? "The pot can't call the kettle black."
Idiom
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Example of what? "He'd put his hand in the fire for you."
Idiom
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Example of what? "The trees all smiled at him that afternoon, and they said, "What war, little boy, what war?"
Personification
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Example of what? "All of these once familiar sounds had taken on overtones of wailing,"
Personification (or foreshadowing)
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Example of what? "He'd join a mob to murder his own grandmother."
Hyperbole
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Example of what? The idea in this novel about the hardships of coming of age.
