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| anecdote | a short story that is used to entertain or to make a point |
| audience | the group of readers or viewers that the writer is addressing |
| author | the writer of a book, article or other text |
| author's purpose | his/her reason for writing. It can be to entertain,explain, inform, persuade. |
| autobiography | a form of nonfiction in which a person tells the story of his or her life |
| ballad | is a poem that tells a story and is meant to be sung |
| biography | the story of a person's life that is written by someone else |
| cause and effect | two events are related as cause and effect when one event brings about or causes the other. The event that happens first is the cause; the one that follows is the effect |
| character trait | a character's personality |
| chronological order | the order in which events happen in time |
| comedy | a work that is humorous and usually ends happily |
| conflict | the problem in the story; a struggle between opposing forces |
| couplet | a rhymed pair of lines in a poem |
| dialect | a form of language spoken in a particular place/particular group of people |
| dialogue | the conversation between characaters |
| essay | a short work of nonfiction that deals with single subject |
| fable | a brief tale that teaches a lesson |
