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| alliteration | the repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds together . |
| allusion | a reference to a statement, a person, a place or an event from literature,history,religion,mythology,politics, sports,or science. |
| autobiography | the story of a person's life, written or told by that person. |
| biography | the story of a real person's life, written or told by another person |
| character | a person or an animal in a story, play, or other literary work |
| conflict | a struggle or clash between opposing characters or opposing forces |
| connotations | the feelings and associations that have come to be attached to a word |
| description | the kind of writing that creates a clear image of something, usually by using details that appeal to one or more of the senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch |
| dialect | a way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or of a particular group of people |
| dialogue | conversation between two or more characters |
| fable | a very brief story in prose or verse tht teaches a moral, a practical lesson about how to succeed in life |
| fiction | a prose account that is made up rather than true |
| figurative language | language that discribes one thing in terms of something else and is not literally true |
| flashback | a scene that breaks the normal time order of the plot to show a past event |
| folk tale | a storywith no known author, originally passed on fron one generation to another by word of mouth |
| foreshadowing | the use of clues of hints to suggest events that will occur later in the plot |
