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| imagery | description that appeals to one or more of the senses |
| conflict | the struggle between opposing forces in a work of literature |
| Figurative Language | description that is not meant to be realistic |
| metaphor | a comparison of unlike things without using like or as |
| alliteration | series of words starting with the same Consonant |
| theme | the message or moral of the story |
| setting | the time and place of a story |
| point of view | the perspective from which a story is told |
| motif | something that repeats or reappears at different points throughout a work |
| symbolism | using one thing to represent something else larger or more abstract |
| irony | when the opposite of what you expect happens |
| foreshadowing | a hint of what will happen |
| flashback | a scene from earlier in time |
| allusion | a reference to something famous |
| narrative | a work of literature that has a plot (a story) |
| Third person omniscient | the narrator can tell readers what any character thinks and feels and what is happening anywhere |
| Third person limited | the narrator sees the world through one character’s eyes and reveals only that character’s thoughts and experiences |
| poetry | a form of writing which uses concise, artistic, emotionally charged language |
| internal rhyme | when rhyming words appear within the same line |
| stanza | separate section of a poem (similar to a paragraph) |
| extended metaphor | a figurative comparison between 2 unlike things that sustained for several lines or an entire poem (very similar to symbol) |
| personification | giving human qualities to non-human things |
| catalog | a list of specific items intended to give a sense of variety or abundance |
| apostrophe | when a narrator speaks directly to a person, thing, or idea that is not really there or cannot respond |
| rhetorical question | a question asked only for effect without expecting an answer |
| ode | a poem that celebrates a person, animal, or object; it is often written without rhyme or meter |
| ballad | a poem often written in couplets (two line stanzas) that tells a story, often |
| meter | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry (Meter can be compared to the rhythm established by beats in music.) |
| free verse | poetry without any rhyme scheme or meter |
| thesis statement | one sentence that states exactly what the essay will prove (last sent. of first paragraph/ first sent. of last paragraph) |
| drama | a story meant to be performed live by actors |
| annotation | a short piece of writing that summarizes or explains an original work |
| autobiography | a work in which the author tells his or her real life story |
| biography | a work in which the author tells the real life story of another person |
| bibliography | a list of publication information about books used as sources in a research paper or other work |
| literary element | a fundamental or necessary component of a story |
| plot | series of events in a story (including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution) |
| characterization | the act of creating and developing people and personalities throughout a work of literature |
| mood | the atmosphere or feeling of a work |
| end rhyme | repetition of sounds at the ends of words |
| caesura | a pause in the middle of a line of poetry |
| Shakepsearean sonnet | poem of 14 lines with the rhyme scheme abab, cdcd, efef, gg; iambic pentameter |
| anthology | collection of several written works in one book |
| thesis statement | one sentence that states exactly what the essay will prove |
| works cited | a list of various kinds of works used as sources in a research paper or other work (books, sites, movies, TV Shows) |
| monologue: | a long speech addressed to other people |
| soliloquy | a long speech addressed to self (when speaker is alone) |
| aside | a short speech or comment supposedly unheard by other characters |
| dramatic irony | when the audience knows important information taht some characters do not know |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| tradegy | a work which ends in teh death or downfall of the main character due to a fatal flaw |
| dramatic irony | when the audience knows important information that some characters do not know |
| simile | a comparison of unlike things using like or as |
| metaphor | a comparison of unlike things without using like or as |
