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| FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE | beyond literal meaning of words to create special effects or feelings |
| NONFICTION | This is factual writing that presents and explains ideas |
| LITERATURE | This is the body of written works that includes prose and poetry |
| MEMOIR | account of the personal experiences of an author |
| LYRIC POEM | This is a highly musical verse that expresses the observations and experience of an author |
| CONFLICT | This is the main problem in a literary work. |
| FICTION | This is writing that tells about imaginary characters |
| DRAMATIC POEM | This is a poem that makes use of the techniques of drama |
| AUTOBIOGRAPHY | This is the story of a person's life written by that person |
| METER | This is the rhythm or regular sound pattern in a piece |
| PREFIX | This can be added to the beginning of a word to change the word's meaning |
| SCENE | This is a small division of a play that usually happens in a particular place and time |
| POETRY | This is the third major type of literature in addition to drma and prose |
| ONOMATOPOEIA | This is the use of words that sound like the noises |
| DRAMA | This is a story written to be performed by actors. |
| METAPHOR | This is a direct comparison of two unlike things |
| CHARACTERIZATION | This is the combination of ways that an author shows a person is like |
| RISING ACTION | This is the part of the plot where the conflict and and suspense build |
| Alliteration | This is the repetition of initial consonant sounds at the beginnings of words. |
| Allusion | This is the reference to a person, place, or event from history, literature, or religion with which a reader is likely to be familiar. |
| Autobiography | This is the story of a person's life written by that person. |
| Biography | The story of a person's life written by another person. |
| Blank Verse | This is poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| Characterization | This is the combination of ways that an author shows readers what a person in a literary selection is like. |
| Climax | This is the part of the plot where the conflict and tension reach a peak. It is the turning point of the plot. |
| Decode | This is when we analyze a spoken or written word to discover its pronunciation or meaning. |
| Drama | This is a story written to be performed by actors. |
| Dramatic Poem | This is a poem that makes use of the techniques of drama. The speaker is clearly someone other than the poet. More than one character may speak. |
| End Rhyme | This is the repetition of similar sounds that comes at the ends of lines of poetry. |
| Fiction | This is writing that tells about imaginary characters and events. |
| Figurative Language | This goes beyond the literal meanings of words to create special effects or feelings. |
| Fixed Form | This means traditional verse form, or a poem that inherits from other poems certain familiar elements of structure including an unvarying number of lines, rhyme, meter, particular themes, tones, and other elements. |
| Foreshadowing | This is the use of hints in written works about what will happen later. |
| Form | This is the structure into which a piece of literature is organized |
| Free Verse | This is poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme, meter, or form. |
| Genre | This is the category or type of literature. |
| Hyperbole | This is extreme exaggeration used in a literary work. |
| Irony | This is the contrast between appearance and reality or what is expected and what actually happens. |
| Legend | This is a story about mythical beings or supernatural events, usually originally told orally for generations before being written down. |
| Literature | This is the body of written works that includes prose and poetry. |
| Lyric Poem | This is a highly musical verse that expresses the observation and feelings of a single speaker. |
| Main Idea | This is the central and most important idea of a reading passage. |
| Memoir | This is an account of the personal experiences of an author. |
| Metaphor | This is a direct comparison of two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as." |
| Meter | This is the rhythm or regular sound pattern in a piece of poetry. |
| Motivation | This is the wants, needs, or beliefs that cause a character to act or react in a particular way. |
| Narrative Poem | This tells a story in verse. |
| Nonfiction | This is factual writing that presents and explains ideas or that tells about real people, places, objects, or events. |
| Onomatopoeia | This is the use of words that sound like the noises they describe. |
| Personification | This is a type of figurative language in which human qualities are given to nonhuman things. |
| Plot | This is the series of events that happen in a literary work. |
| Poem | This is an arrangement of words in verse. It sometimes rhymes, and expresses facts, emotions, or ideas in a style more concentrated, imaginative and powerful than that of ordinary speech. |
| Poetry | This is the third major type of literature in addition to drama and prose. |
| Prefix | This can be added to the beginning of a word to change the word's meaning. |
| Rhyme Scheme | This is the regular pattern of rhyme found at the ends of lines in poems. |
| Rising Action | This is the part of the plot where the conflict and suspense build. |
| Root Word | This is a word related in origin, as certain words in genetically related languages descended from the same ancestral root. It is the part of the word after all affixes have been removed. |
| Scene | This is a small division of a play that usually happens in a particular time and place. |
| Setting | This is the time and place in which a literary work happens. |
| Simile | This is a comparison of two unlike things using the terms "like" or "as". |
| Sonnet | This is a fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter. |
| Stanza | This is a group of related lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in prose. |
| Subplot | This is a secondary plot in a work of literature that either explains or helps to develop the main plot. |
| Suffix | This can be added to the end of a word to change the word's meaning. |
| Active Voice | This is used when the subject of a sentence performs the action. |
| Advertisement | This is a public announcement promoting a product or service. |
| Aesthetic | This has to do with the beauty of something rather than its usefulness. |
| Analogy | This is a comparison based on a similarity between things that are otherwise dissimilar. |
| Anecdote | This is a brief story about an interesting incident. |
| Argumentation | This is the kind of writing that tries to persuade readers to accept an author's opinions. |
| Cause And Effect | This is the relationship between two or more events in which one event brings about another. |
| Connotation | This is the emotional feelings and associations that go beyond the dictionary definition of a word. |
| Context Clues | These are in the text surrounding a word and give hints for the meaning of the word. |
| Critique | This is a written or spoken evaluation of what is and is not effective in a literary work. |
| Denotation | This is the dictionary definition of a word. |
| Dialogue | These are the words spoken by characters in a literary work. |
| Diction | This is the writer's choice of words, including the vocabulary used, the appropriateness of the words, and the vividness of the language. |
| Editorial | This is an article in a publication or a commentary on television or radio expressing the opinion of its editors, publishers, station, or network. |
| Essay | This is a short, nonfiction work about a particular subject. |
| Fact | This is a statement that can be proved to be true. |
| Fluency | This is the ability to speak, read, or write a language; automatic word recognition, decoding, and checking for meaning. |
| Implied Meaning | This is a suggested, but not stated, definition. |
| Inference | This is reading between the lines. It is taking something that you read and putting it together with something that you already know to make sense of what you read. |
| Media | This is the main means of mass communication. |
| Monologue | This is a long, uninterrupted speech by a character in a play, story, or poem. |
| Mood | This is the feeling that an author wants readers to have while reading. |
| Novel | This is a long work of fiction. It has a complicated plot, many characters, a significant theme, and varied settings. |
| Opinion | This is a statement that reflects a writer's belief about a topic , and it cannot be proved. |
| Paraphrase | This is the restatement of a written work in one's own words that keeps the basic meaning of the original work. |
| Passive Voice | This is used when the subject of a sentence receives the action instead of doing it. |
| Point Of View | This is the perspective from which a story is told. |
| Short Story | This is a brief work of fiction. It resembles a novel but his a simpler plot and setting and fewer characters. |
| Speech | This is a talk or public address. |
| Strategy | This is any kind of mental action used by a student to comprehend and make meaning out of a reading text. |
| Style | This is the way an author expresses ideas through the use of kinds of words, literary devices, and sentence structure. |
| Text | This is the main body of a piece of writing or any of the various forms in which writing exists, such as a book, a poem, an article, or a short story. |
| Theme | This is the message, usually about life or society, that an author wishes to convey through a literary work. |
| Tone | This is the attitude that an author takes toward the audience, the subject, or a character. |
| Transcript | This documentation is the record in printed form of what was said. |
