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| fable | a short story with a moral lesson and animals are the characters |
| myth | an anonymous traditional story that is basically religious in nature, and that usually serves to explain a belief, ritual, or mysterious natural phenomenon |
| parable | a short story with a moral lesson |
| legend | a story with some historical truth and it is passed down form generation to generation |
| epic | a long narrative poem |
| Romantic hero | a character who goes on a quest, must prove his strength and intelligence, is helped by magic, has a connection with nature, and must fight or outsmart his enemies |
| chivalry | a code of conduct for knights-brave, honorable, generous to foes, ready to help the weak and protect women, and loyal |
| allusion | a reference to something in the past |
| tone | an author's attitude towards his subject, characters in the story, or his audience |
| setting | when and where a story takes place |
| characterization | a method of developing a character though thoughts, actions, and speech |
| internal conflict | a problem that exists within a character |
| external conflict | a problem that exists outside of the character |
| plot structure | the seriers of events which take place in a story |
| parallelism | a form of writing in which phrases, clauses, punctuation, and parts of speech are used in the same way |
| first-person point of view | the narrator is a character in the story and uses the personal pronoun "I" |
| second-person point of view | a form of narration where the author uses "you," "yours," or "your" when talking to the reader |
| third-person limited point of view | the narrator is a character in the story and only knows the actions and thoughts of one or just a few characters |
| third-person omniscient point of view | the narrator, who is not a part of the story, tells the story and knows everything that is happening |
| theme | central idea of a story |
