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- 3. language use to appeal to the senses
- 4. Simile Simile an extended comparison, also called an epic simile, gets its name from Homer, the Greek poet
- 6. tradition stories, songs, and poems about the history and heritage of a people that are passed from generation to generation by word of mouth
- 10. Metaphor a metaphor that is extended, or developed over several lines of writing or even throughout an entire poem
- 12. Reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science or pop culture
- 13. Justice When a character gets what he/she deserves. When the most fitting reward or punishment is doled out to a character
- 14. traditional story that is rooted in a particular culture, is basically religious, and usually serves to explain a belief, a ritual, or mysterious natural phenomenon
- 15. the author’s use of clues to hint at what might happen later in the story
- 17. a literary device in which an earlier episode, conversation, or event is inserted into the sequence of events
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- 1. hero a character who exhibits extraordinary powers of strength, courage or intelligence
- 2. kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human
- 5. person, place, thing, or event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself as well
- 7. a widely told story about the past, one that may or may not have a foundation in fact
- 8. Figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, in which one thing becomes another thing without the use of the word like, as, than or resembles
- 9. a long narrative poem that traces the adventures of an epic hero
- 11. adjective or descriptive phrase that is regularly used to characterize a person, place or thing
- 16. irony irony occurs when the audience or the reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know