A few concepts you need to know for English literature What is an assessment? The evaluation and estimation of the nature, quality, or ability of someone or something. Analyzing literature: Foreshadow: literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story. Allusions: when a person or author makes an indirect reference in speech, text, or song to an event or figure. Paradox: statement that is self-contradictory because it often contains two statements that are both true, but in general, cannot both be true at the same time. Analogy: comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it. It aims at explaining that idea or thing by comparing it to something that is familiar. ...
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