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| alliteration | the repetition of the initial letter or sound in two or more words in a line of verse |
| character | a person or animal in a story, play, or other literary work |
| characterization | the way an author reveals the personality of a character |
| climax | the point in the story that has the greatest suspense or interest for the reader. The outcome of the conflict is usually decided at this point |
| comparison | a struggle between two or more things |
| conflict | a struggle between opposing chracters or between opposing forces |
| contrast | showing differences between two or more things |
| description | writing intended to create a mood or emotion or to recreate a person, place, thing, an event, or an experience |
| dialogue | conversation between two or more characters |
| fiction | a prose account that is basically made up rather than factually true |
| figure of speech | a word or [hrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood as literally true |
| flahback | interruption in the present action of a plot to flaash backward and tell what happened at an earlier time |
| foreshadowing | the use of clues or hints suggesting events that will occur later in the plot |
| hyperbole | an exxagerationfor the sake of emphasis and is not to be taken literally |
| irony | a contrast between expectations and reality |
| legend | a story of extraordinary deeds that is handed down from one generation to another |
| metaphor-a | a comparison of two unlike things in which one ting becomes another thing. My heart is a ball of string. |
| narration | the kind of writing that tells a story |
| narrative poem | a poem that tells a story |
| nonfiction | prose writing that deals with real people, events, and places without changing facts |
| novel | a long fictional story that uses all the elements of storytelling |
| onomatopoeia | the use of a word to represent or imitate natural sounds |
| plot | the series of realted events that make up the story |
| poetry | a kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to our emotions and imaginations |
| personification | a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes |
| prose | any writing that is not poetry |
| point of view | the vantage point from which a story is told |
| protagonist | the main character in a work of literature |
| refrain | a repeated sound, word, phrase, line, or group of lines |
| rhyme | a similarity or likeness of sound existing between two words |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern or sequence in which the rhyme occurs |
| end rhyme | consists of the similarity occurring at the end of two or more lines of verse |
| internal rhyme | consists of the similarity occurring between two or more words in the same line of verse |
| setting | the time and place of the story, play, or narrative |
| simile | a comparison between two usually unrelated things using like or as |
| speaker | the character talking in a poem |
| stanza | a division of a poem based on thought or form |
| symbol | a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something beyond itself |
| antagonist | a character that opposes the protagonist |
| allegory | a story or poem in which the characters and setting and events stand for other poeple or events or ideas. It is used to teach a lesson or to explain something |
| omniscient | the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems |
| short story | a short fictional prose narrative |
