Noun - a person, place or thing , Verb - an action , Adjective - a word that describes , Imagery - descriptions that appeal to the five senses , Simile - comparing two unlike objects/people using like or as, Metaphor - a figure of speech that compares two dissimilar items or people., rhetorical question - A question asked with no expectation of an answer., asyndeton - A long list separated by commas., lexical (or semantic) field - a group of words that pertain to one topic, symbolism - using an image to figuratively represent an idea or quality , retrospective narrative - A story told in the past tense with the narrator looking back on her/his life., rule of three (or three part list) - three items and adjectives used in conjunction with one another to describe or explain , motif - a symbol or idea that appears frequently throughout a story, personification - giving human qualities to an inanimate or non-human object, juxtaposition - two ideas placed near to each other with contrasting meaning, simple sentence - A short sentence consisting of one main clause.,

Literary Conventions

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