| A | B |
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| Literary Devices | Tools used by the author to enliven and provide voice to the writing (e.g., dialogue, alliteration) |
| Literary Elements | the essential techniques used in literature (e.g., characterization, setting, plot, theme) |
| Literary Nonfiction | Text that includes literary elements and devised usually associated with fiction to report on actual persons, places, or events. |
| Main Idea | the author's central thought |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech that expresses an idea through the image of another object |
| Meter | the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |
| mood | the prevailing emotions of a work or of the author in his or her creation of the work |
| Multiple-meaning words | words that have several meanings depending upon how they are used in a sentence |
| narrative | test which conveys a story or which relates events or dialogue |
| Nonfiction | prose writing that is not fictional |
