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TExES ELAR 7-12 Latest 2023 with Verified Answers Exposition ✔✔portion of a story that introduces important background information to the audience; for example, information about the setting, e... vents occurring before the main plot, characters' back stories, etc. Hyperbole ✔✔A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. (The literal Greek meaning is "overshoot.") Irony/ironic ✔✔The contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant, or the difference between what appears to be and what is actually true. Metaphor ✔✔A figure of speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things or the substitution of one for the other, suggesting some similarity. Metaphorical language makes writing more vivid, imaginative, thought provoking, and meaningful. Mood ✔✔The prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a work. Setting, tone, and events can affect this. Personification ✔✔A figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions. it is used to make these abstractions, animals, or objects appear more vivid to the reader. Symbol/symbolism ✔✔Generally, anything that represents itself and stands for something else. Usually a symbol is something concrete -- such as an object, action, character, or scene - that represents something more abstract. Theme ✔✔The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life. Tone ✔✔describes the author's attitude toward his material, the audience, or both. it is easier to determine in spoken language than in written language. Foreshadowing ✔✔A literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story. Situational Irony ✔✔when events turn out the opposite of what was expected; when what the characters and readers think ought to happen is not what does happen [Show More]

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