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| Personification | a kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human. |
| Persuasion | a kind of writing that aims at convincing the reader or listener to thing or act in a certain way. |
| Plot | the series of related events that make up a story or drama. |
| Poetry | a kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to our emotions and imaginations. |
| Point of View | the vantage point from which a writer tells a story. |
| Protagonist | the main character in fiction or drama. |
| Pun | a play or the multiple meanings or a word. Or no tow words that sound the same. |
| Refrain | A repeated word, phrase, line or group of lines. |
| Rhyme | The repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are closet together in a poem. |
| Rhythm | the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language. |
| Romance | Historically, a medieval verse narrative chronicling the adventures of a brave knight or other hero who must overcome great danger for lobe of a noble lady or high idea. |
| Satire | a kind of writing that ridicules human weakness, vice, or folly in order to bring about social reform. |
| Setting | the time and place of a story or play. |
| Short Story | a short fictional prose narrative. |
| Simile | A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things by using a connective word such as like, as, than, or resembles. |
| Soliloquy | A long speech in which a character who is alone onstage expresses private thoughts or feelings. |
| Sonnet | A fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter that has one of several rhyme schemes. |
| Speaker | The voice that is talking to us in a poem. |
| Stanza | A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit. |
| Suspense | the uncertainly or anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story. |
| Symbol | A person, place, thing, or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself. |
| Theme | The central idea or insight of a work of literature. |
| Tone | The attitude a writer takes toward the reader, a subject, or a character. |
| Tragedy | A play, novel, or other narrative depiction serious and important events, in which the main character comer to an unhappy end, |
