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the feeling or emotion an author evokes in the reader through the use of sensory words or phrases.
Mood
a main idea that the author attempts to convey to the reader. (the hardships of coming of age.)
Theme
the use of exaggeration to make a point.
Hyperbole
the act of placing two things side by side for comparison or contrast.
Juxtaposition
an expression that does not literally mean what it says, but has a different, understood meaning.
Idiom
the use of exaggeration to make a point
Hyperbole
a difference between what is expected and what actually happens.
Irony
saying something that means the opposite of what is said
Verbal Irony
Example of what? "The pot can't call the kettle black."
Idiom
Example of what? "He'd put his hand in the fire for you."
Idiom
Example of what? "The trees all smiled at him that afternoon, and they said, "What war, little boy, what war?"
Personification
Example of what? "All of these once familiar sounds had taken on overtones of wailing,"
Personification (or foreshadowing)
Example of what? "He'd join a mob to murder his own grandmother."
Hyperbole
Example of what? The idea in this novel about the hardships of coming of age.
Theme
Example of what? "It 'mazes me, Jeth, it does fer a fact, the way you kin recollect all the things Shad tells you and how you kin put them from his way of talkin' into mine."
Dialect (a style of speech)
Example of what? "It's been days that I've looked for'ard to hevin' a meal with you, and here I've lost myself in talk that gits me worked up and loud of voice."
Dialect (a style of speech)
