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| Character | a person or animal that takes part in the action |
| Conflict | struggle between opposing forces |
| Dialogue | conversation between characters |
| Exposition | writing or speech that explains a process or information |
| Figurative Language | writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally |
| Metaphor | a figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else |
| Simile | a figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between 2 ideas |
| Personification | a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics |
| Foreshadowing | the author's use of clues to hint at what might happen later in the story |
| Genre | a division or type of literature |
| Plot | the sequence of events in which each event results from the previous one and causes the next |
| Repetition | the use, more than once, of any element of language- a sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence |
| Rhyme | the repetition of sounds at the ends of words |
| Rhythm | a pattern of beats, or stresses, in spoken or written language |
| Stanza | a formal division of lines in a poem, considered as a unit. |
