Literary Techniques

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Which literary technique involves using real-world objects, people, or scenarios to represent abstract ideas?

  • Allusion
  • Personification
  • Symbolism (correct)
  • Stream of consciousness

What is the term for a character's thoughts, feelings, and reactions being shown in a continuous flow with little or no description or dialogue?

  • Stream of consciousness (correct)
  • Ambiguous ending
  • In medias res
  • Multiple narrators

Which literary technique involves starting a story in the middle or end of the action, then going back in time to tell the full story?

  • Unreliable narrator
  • In medias res (correct)
  • Ambiguous ending
  • Multiple narrators

What is the term for a conversation in a story that shows what characters are thinking, connects characters, or causes something to happen?

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What is the term for an ending in a story that is open to different interpretations or leaves the reader hanging?

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