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| setting | time, place, and duration in a story |
| plot | development of central conflict and resolution |
| character traits | what a character says, thinks, does, and how other characters respond |
| conflict | problem(s) in the story; internal within characters and external between characters |
| theme | The message that the author intends to communicate by telling the story |
| simile | figure of speech using like or as to make comparisons |
| hyperbole | intentionally exaggerated figures of speech |
| rhyme | recurring identical or similar final word sounds within or at the ends of lines or verses |
| rhythm | The recurring pattern of strong and weak syllabic stresses |
| repetition | repeated use of sounds words, or ideas for effect and emphasis |
| alliteration | repetition of initial sounds |
| onomatopoeia | the use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning (buzz) |
| haiku | 17 syllable, delicate, unrhymed Japanese verse |
| limerick | 5 line rhymed, rhythmic verse, usually humorous |
| ballad | songlike narrative poem, usually featuring rhythm, rhyme, and refrain |
| free verse | poetry with neither meter nor rhyme scheme |
| personification | figure of speech that applies human characteristics to non-human objects |
| couplet | a pair of rhyming lines |
| quatrain | stanza containing four lines |
| foreshadowing | the use of clues to hint at coming events in a story |
| irony | the contrast between expectation and reality; between what appears to be true and what really is true |
| meter | a fixed pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of fixed length to create thythm |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| consonance | repetition of cconsonant sounds |
| metaphor | figure of speecfh that compares two things but does not use like, than, or as |
| flashback | a return to an earlies time in the course of a narrative to introduce prior information |
| symbolism | anything that reperesents something else, often by indirect associationn or by the convention of an emblem, token, or word |
| point of view | the way an author revels events and ideas in the story |
| omniscient point of view | when a narrator knows all, hears all and sees all |
| limited point of view | depicts only what one character or narrator sees, hears, and feels |
