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| theme | the overall lesson, message, or main idea that the author of a literary work tries to make persuasive to readers. |
| mood | the feeling created in a reader by a literary work or passage (based on word choice, description, plot, etc.). |
| tone | the speaker or narrator's attitude towards his subject. |
| genre | a division or type of literature. |
| first person narration | the narrator is a character in the story who refers to him/herself as "I". |
| third person narration | the narrator stands outside the action of the story. |
| voice | describes an author's individual writing style; the author's unique fingerprint. |
| metaphor | a direct comparison between two different things; describing one thing in terms of something else. |
| simile | an indirect comparison between two different things using "like" or "as". |
| text | any work of literature to be read and analyzed. |
