GED: Reasoning Through the Language Arts Test: Essential Literary Terms, List 2

On the GED Reasoning Through Language Arts Test, you will encounter passages from literature. Ensure you're prepared to analyze literary texts by mastering these important terms.
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  1. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  2. mood
    a characteristic state of feeling
  3. narrative
    an account that tells the particulars of an act or event
  4. narrator
    someone who tells a story
  5. parallelism
    similarity by virtue of corresponding
  6. personification
    attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
  7. plot
    a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
  8. repetition
    the act of doing or performing again
  9. setting
    the physical position of something
  10. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
  11. symbolism
    the practice of investing things with arbitrary meaning
  12. tone
    the distinctive property of a complex sound
  13. understatement
    something said in a restrained way for ironic contrast
Created on Wed Jun 04 12:55:06 EDT 2025

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