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7219665929alliterationrepetition of one or more initial consonants in a group of words or line of poetry or prose0
7219669823allusiona reference to a person, place, event, or work1
7219671466ambiguityvagueness2
7219672171annotationa brief explanation, summary, or evaluation of a text or work3
7219676548antagonista character or force working against the main character4
7219681936"Bildungsroman"a coming of age story5
7219683360canonthe works considered most important in a national literature or period6
7219684823connotationsuggested or implied meaning of a word7
7219685813denotationthe dictionary definition of a word8
7219686450dictionchoice of words9
7219687860first-person narrativenarrative told with pronouns such as "I" and "we"10
7219689149foreshadowingproviding hints of things to come in a story11
7219690153metaphora figure of speech that compares unlike objects12
7219693797point of viewthe relation in which a narrator stands to the story13
7219695781protagonistthe main character14
7219696355settingthe total environment of the action of a work15
7219698892stylethe manner in which an author uses and arranges words, shapes ideas, structures sentences, etc.16
7219701101symbolismthe use of an object to evoke ideas or associations beyond the actual, physical thing17
7219702965syntaxsentence structure18
7219704005tonethe author's attitude19

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