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Alliteration
Gee, thanks Einstein!
Allusion
You better watch out / you better not cry / you better not pout / I’m telling you why
Anaphora
Harry Potter's Lord Voldemort or The Lion King's Scar
Antagonist
The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain
Assonance
A struggle between two opposing forces
Conflict
My sister's new boyfriend is very Wall Street
Connotation
The supermarket is on Wall Street, two blocks from here.
Denotation
"The cat sat by the empty food bowl and looked at her with a hard stare.” vs. “The cat stalked over to the barren food bowl and leveled her with a baleful glare.”
Diction
The first part of a story, where we meet the characters and get to know the setting. Before something happens that upsets the status quo.
Exposition
After the most exciting point in the story, when things slowly start settling down
Falling action
I woke up in a sweat. I knew I had just awoken from a terrible dream, although I couldn't quite recall it.
First-person narration
When a character remembers something that happened at an earlier point in time
Flashback
When a character only has one major character trait and is not developed much beyond that. Example: Harry Potter's Crabbe and Goyle (Malfoy's friends)
Flat character
"I have a bad feeling about this"... right before the character enter the creepy basement in a horror movie.
Foreshadowing
To infinity... and beyond!
Hyperbole
