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Class Period _______

Date

Directions: Define the following literary terms and give an example from your own
creation or from Literature. (You may use the AP terms link that I gave you on the
Hub for help but must answer in your own words.) When you get through defining
the terms with examples, you must write a story using the words! Please, bold the
words in the story!
1).
Ambiguity Definition (in your own words)
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Climax
Definition (in your own words)
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Deconstruction: (Definition in your own words)
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Denouement

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5).
Deus ex Machina
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Anthropomorphism
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Eponym
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Hyperbole
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Irony
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10). Juxtaposition

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11). Metonymy
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12). Synecdoche
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Dont forget to write your story using these given

vocabulary! You must write at least one page!