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| autobiography | An account by a writer of his or her own life |
| biography | An account of a person’s life written or told by another person |
| anecdote | A brief account of a particular event, generally told to make a specific point |
| setting | The time and place where a story occurs |
| point of view | Vantage point from which a writer tells a story |
| title | The name a work of literature |
| tone | The attitude a writer takes toward the reader, a subject, or a character |
| mood | Feeling of a work of literature |
| dialogue | Conversation between two or more characters |
| repetition | Repeated use of a word, phrase, or lines for emphasis or musical effect |
| quotation | When a piece of one text is used as evidence in another |
| rhythm | Musical quality in language, produced by repetition |
| rhyme | Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem |
| end rhyme | Rhyme that occurs at the end of a line of poetry |
| internal rhyme | Rhyme that occurs within a line of poetry |
| approximate rhyme | Words that sound similar but do not rhyme exactly |
| Alliteration | Repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are similar or close together |
| onomatopoeia | Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning |
| comic relief | When writers use humor to relieve tension in an otherwise suspenseful or tragic plot |
| satire | Type of writing that ridicules human weakness, vice, or folly in order to bring about social reform |
| dramatic irony | When the reader or audience knows something important that the characters do not know |
| situational irony | What actually happens is the opposite of what is expected or appropriate |
| objective | Writing that states information in a factual way without personal bias or opinion |
| subjective | Writing that includes personal bias or opinion |
| fact | Information that can be verified by research |
| opinion | Information that cannot be verified by research |
| evidence | Information that supports an assertion; may include facts, statistics, details, examples, anecdotes, or quotations |
| fallacy | A type of persuasion that relies on emotional appeal and language manipulation to make something seem true that isn’t necessarily true. |
| emotional appeal | Persuasive reasons and evidence that appear to the audience’s emotions. |
| simile | A comparison using a connecting verb such as like or as |
| metaphor | A comparison between two unlike objects without using a connecting word. |
| direct metaphor | A direct comparison between two unlike things; generally states that one thing IS another |
| implied metaphor | A comparison between two unlike things that is not directly stated but must be inferred. |
| extended metaphor | A metaphor that is developed over several lines or throughout an entire poem. |
| personification | When a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human. |
| symbol | Person, place, thing, or event that stands for both itself and something beyond itself. |
| theme | The central idea or insight revealed by a work of literature. |
| idiom | Expression peculiar to a particular language that means something different from the literal meaning of the words. |
| free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme |
| couplet | two consecutive lines of poetry that form a unit, often emphasized by rhythm or rhyme |
| quatrain | four consecutive lines of poetry that form a unit, often emphasized by rhythm or rhyme |
| meter | A generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in of poetry |
