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| genre | a literary category - prose, poetry, drama |
| types of prose | fiction and nonfiction |
| types of poetry | lyric, narrative, and dramatic |
| types of drama | tragedy, comedy, historical, melodrama, farce |
| types of fiction | novels, novellas, short stories, folktales |
| types of nonfiction | biographies, autobiographies, essays |
| antagonist | a person or force that opposes the protagonist, or central character, in a story or drama |
| autobiography | the story of a person's life written by that person |
| dialogue | conversation between characters in a literary work |
| fable | a short, simple tale that teaches a moral. The characters in a fable are often animals who speak and act like people |
| folktale | a traditional story passed down orally long before being written down |
| imagery | language that emphasizes sensory impressions to help the reader of a literary work see, hear, feel, smell, and taste the scenes described in the work |
| protagonist | the central character in a story, drama, or dramatic poem |
| repetition | the recurrence of sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas in a speech or piece of writing |
| science fiction | fiction dealing with the impact of real science or imaginary superscience on human or alien societies of the past, present, or future |
| setting | the time and place in which the events of a story take place |
| short story | a brief fictional narrative in prose |
| stanza | a group of lines forming a unit, or the paragraphs, in a poem |
| tall tale | a wildly imaginative story, usually passed down orally, about the fantastic adventures of amazing feats of folk heroes in realistic local settings |
| elements of short stories | plot, character, setting, point of view, theme |
| character | a person in a literary work |
| round character | a character who shows varied and sometimes contradictory traits |
| flat character | a character who reveals only one personality trait |
| dynamic character | a character who changes during the story |
| static character | a character who remains the same throughout the story |
