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Five Literary Terms You Didn’t Even Know You Were Reading
If your high school experience was anything like mine—although I never found the Canadian public education system to be particularly thorough or comprehension—you learned the basics of grammar, spelling, and the facets that make up a novel (i.e. plot, character, setting, symbol, theme, conflict, etc.) but beyond that, and least for me anyway, there’s very little taught. You might be surprised to learn that what you read everyday, from newspapers to advertising, employ common techniques that we take usually take for granted, but have actually existed for centuries.
