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The use of a person to represent another person is termed personification.

Any object or person introduced to resolve the conflict of the work is termed deus ex machina.

Genre is a type or kind of literature.

An epithet usually indicates some notable quality about the individual with whom it addresses, but it can also be used ironically to emphasize qualities that an individual might actually lack.

A parable is a piece of literature that uses devices of figurative speech in order to counter, conflict, and go against a moral lesson or moral truth.

A literary device wherein the author reveals events of the story as the story’s plot unfolds in the story is called foreshadowing.

A very lengthy fictional narrative is called a novella.

Allusion in literature occurs when the author causes the reader to believe something that is not a reality.

A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares while a simile is a figure of speech that does not use comparative qualities.

Describe how the transition from childhood to adolescence involves changes in the socioemotional, cognitive, and physical domains.  Give specific examples of these changes.