"The Monkey's Paw" Literary Terms
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- When and where a story takes place
- Setting
- When many words in a sentence begin with the same sound/letter
- Alliteration
- The main idea or life message of a story or novel
- Theme
- The person who tells the story
- Narrator
- When events in a story are arranged in the sequence that they happened
- Chronological order
- Language that appeals to your senses. It helps you picture how things look, sound, feel, smell, or taste.
- Imagery
- How a word is used in a sentence
- Context
- The lesson that a story teaches
- Moral
- To make a logical guess based on facts
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Infer
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Inference - Extreme exaggeration in a story
- Hyperbole
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Means a type of literature
There are 4 of these: poetry, drama, fiction, non-fiction -
Genre
(pronounced-Jon-ruh) - When a major change in the story plot happens
- Turning point