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Sunday, 19 May 2024, 8:59 AM
Site: Clarenceville School District
Course: English - Mrs. Marinelli (330001-2)
Glossary: Glossary: Literary Terms to Know
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Setting

The time and place of action of a story is its setting.

Simile

When a writer compares things using the words like or as, it is a simile.

EXAMPLES (from an online collection, Anonymous):

Comparisons using LIKE:

Comparisons using AS:

He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was the East River. He was deeply in love.  When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.
Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

Symbols

A person, place, activity or object that stands for something beyond itself is a symbol.