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Literary Terms 9th Grade Central Students Should Know

  1. allegory
  2. catharsis
  3. characterization
  4. climax
  5. conflict
  6. connotative language
  7. denotative
  8. drama
  9. epic
  10. epic hero
  11. exposition
  12. fairy tale
  13. figurative language
  14. flashback
  15. folktalke
  16. foreshadowing
  17. genre
  18. imagery
  19. irony (dramatic, situational, verbal)
  20. lyric
  21. melodrama
  22. meaphor
  23. moral
  24. mythology
  25. first person
  26. second person
  27. third person (limited/omniscient)
  28. pardox
  29. plot
  30. poem
  31. protagonist
  32. resolution
  33. saturi
  34. short shorty
  35. symbols
  36. theme
  37. tone
  38. tragedy



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