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| haiku | A Japanese form of poetry with three lines of five syllables, seven syllables, five syllables. |
| historical fiction | Stories that center upon or incorporate some significant historical events. |
| hyperbole | Exaggerating or stretching the truth for literary effect. |
| iambic pentameter | A metrical pattern of unstressed followed by stressed syllables common in poetry. |
| imagery | Words that describe sights, sounds, movements, and recreate a sensory experience. |
| irony | When something is different that it is supposed to be or thought to be. Kinds of irony include verbal, dramatic, and situational. |
| jargon | Speech used by people in the same job or profession. |
| lyric poetry | Poetry that does not tell a story but aims only at expressing a speaker's thoughts or emotions. |
| metaphor | An implied comparison of two unlike things not using like or as. |
| meter | The repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. |
| monologue | A speech or performance given entirely by one person or one character. |
| mood | The climate or feeling in a literary work. |
| myth | A fictional tale that explains the actions of gods or heroes, and/or causes of natural phenomenon. |
| narrative poetry | A poem that tells a story. |
| nonfiction | Prose that explains ideas or is about real people, places, objects, or events. |
| omniscient point of view | When the story is told from the perspective of someone outside of the events but who knows and reveals all the character's thoughts and feelings. |
| onomatopoeia | The use of words that imitate sounds. |
| oxymoron | Two words used together that contradict each other like "icy hot." |
| paradox | A statement that seems to be contradictory but that actually present a truth. |
| parallelism | Repetition of phrases that have similar grammatical patterns. |
