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What is a Metaphor?

What is Foreshadowing?

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What is Foreshadowing?
Hints of past events in the story
Hints at future events in the story
Recurring symbols, elements, ideas that develop a theme of the story
Use of figurative and descriptive language that evokes an image in the mind
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What is a Metaphor?
A comparison using ‘like’ or ‘as’
Compares 2 things, saying one is the other
2 contradictory terms are paired next to each other
A symbol that represents something beyond its literal meaning
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Which of these is an example of a simile?
"Ambition is a hunger"
"Juliet is the sun"
“Doubtful it stood as two spent swimmers"
"Your face, my thane, is a book"
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What is Symbolism?
Recurring symbols, elements, ideas that develop a theme of the story
Use of figurative and descriptive language that evokes an image in the mind
A symbol that represents something beyond its literal meaning
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What is Imagery?
The description of paintings in the world of the text
The use of images/drawings
Use of figurative and descriptive language that evokes an image in the mind
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What is a Simile?
A comparison using ‘like’ or ‘as’
Use of figurative and descriptive language that evokes an image in the mind
Comparing 2 things, saying one is the other
Use of exaggeration for emphasis
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What are Motifs?
A symbol that represents something beyond its literal meaning
Recurring symbols, elements, ideas that develop a theme of the story
A comparison using ‘like’ or ‘as’
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What is Personification?
Recurring symbols, elements, ideas that develop a theme of the story
The use of characterisation for emphasis
Attributing human qualities to something non-human
A symbol that represents something beyond its literal meaning