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fiction | any story that is the product of imagination rather than a documentation of fact |
hyperbole | an exaggeration or overstatement |
imagery | a word or group of words in a literary work which appeal to one or more of the senses: sight, taste, touch, hearing, and smell |
implicit | meanings which, though unexpressed in the literal text, may be understood by the reader; implied |
inference | a judgment based on reasoning rather than on direct or explicit statement |
informational text | it is nonfiction, written primarily to convey factual information |
irony | the use of a word or phrase to mean the exact opposit of its literal or usual meaning |
legends | a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events, or a story coming down form the past |
limerick | a light or humoorous verse form of five lines, of which lines q, 2, and 5 rhymes and lines 3 and 4 rhyme |
literary conflict | the struggle that grows out of the interplay of the two opposing forces in a plot |