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| third-person point of view | the narrator, who plays no part in the story, zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of just one character |
| protagonist | main character in fiction or drama |
| pun | play on the multiple meanings of a word or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings |
| refrain | repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines |
| rhyme | repetition of accented vowel sounds, and all sounds following them, in words that are close together in a poem |
| rhythm | musical quality in language produced by repetition |
| satire | type of writing that ridicules something-a person, a group of people, humanity at large, an attitude or failing, a social institution-in order to reveal a weakness |
| scene design | sets, lights, costumes, and props, which bring a play to life onstage |
| setting | the time and place of a story or play |
| short story | short, concentrated, fictional prose narrative |
| simile | figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, resembles, or than |
| soliloquy | long speech in which a character who is onstage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud |
| sonnet | fourteen-line poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that hs one of several rhyme schemes |
| speaker | voice that is talking to us in a poem |
| stanza | group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit |
| style | the particular way in which a writer uses language |
| suspense | uncertainty or anxiety the reader feels about what is going to happen next in a story |
| tall tale | exaggerated, far-fetched story that is obviously untrue but is told as though it should be believed |
| theme | central idea of a work of literature |
| tone | attitude a writer takes toward a subject, a character, or the audience |
| tragedy | play that depicts serious and improtant events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end |
| voice | the writer's or speaker's distinctive use of language in a text |
