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| alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of syllables as in Sister Susie sells seashells by the seashore |
| assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds |
| conflict | a struggle or problem in the plot of a poem, story or play |
| characterization | The way an author describes a character |
| climax | the point of highest interest and suspense in a literary work. It sometimes signals the turning point of the action in a story or play |
| external conflict | a struggle that takes place between a character and something outside that character such as another character, society or nature |
| foreshadowing | When the author gives hints or clues as to what will happen later in the story |
| imagery | language that creates concrete representations of an object or an experience - may appeal to your 5 senses |
| internal conflict | a struggle that takes place inside the mind of the character |
| irony | something happens that seems the opposite of what should happen |
| metaphor | a direct comparison of unlike things not using "like" or "as" |
| mood | the feeling or emotion that the writer creates in a literary |
| motivation | a force that moves a character to think, feel, or behave in a certain way |
| onomatopoeia | words that imitate sounds such as crash, bang, or boom |
| personification | Giving human qualities to something that is not human |
| resolution | the point in a poem, story, or play at which the central conflict or struggle ends |
| rhythm | the pattern of beats in a line poetry or prose |
| setting | the time and place in which a literary work happens |
| simile | a comparison using like or as |
| symbol | a thing that stands for or represents both itself and something else |
| theme | a central idea in a literary work |
| flashback | going back in time - recalling memories |
| etymology | history of a word, changed, borrowed, adapted from another language |
| fiction | literary text - NOT true - created from the author's imagination |
| hyperbole | extreme exageration created for emphasis or humor (we had to hang a man to start the graveyard) |
| idiom | expression not meant to be taken literally (it was raining cats and dogs) |
| informational text | non-fiction (true, factual, or opinion) |
| plot | what happens in a literary text |
| point of view | an author's opinion on an issue |
| pun | a play on words (you are two tents / you are too tense) |
| rhyming words | words that end with the same sound(s) |
| tone | the overall feeling that a literary selection presents to the reader |
| symbolism | something represents something else |
| allusion | a reference to a famous historical, religious, mythological, or literary person or event |
| argument | the way in which the author tries to persuade the reader using facts, examples, and reasons that are logical |
| autobiography | the story of someone's life written by that person |
| biography | the story of someone's life written by another person |
| caption | information found under or beside a picture, diagram, graph, etc to explain to the reader |
| footnote | extra information given at the bottom of a page or text |
| genre | a certain kind of literature or writing (short story, poetry, frama, fable, autobiography, persuasive, expository, personal narrative |
| historical fiction | Literary text. A novel, story, or play set during a real historical time period that gives an idea of what life was really like at that time |
| inference | drawing a conclusion based on schema (background knowledge) and current information |
| literary text | "Fiction". Narrative text (tells a story) |
| main idea | what a passge is mostly about |
| meter | the "beat" (stressed and unstressed syllables) or rhythm pattern of lines of poetry |
| technical directions | Instructions for the use of something |
| nonfiction | Writing based on facts-informational text (true) |
| author's purpose | the reason why an author wrote something; usually associated with informational text |
| tone | the overal feeling that a literary selection presents to the reader |
