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| first person point of view | the events are told by a character in the story |
| third person point of view | the events are told by someone outside the story |
| simile | a comparison between two things, using “like” or “as”. |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which something is described as if it were something else; a comparison made without using “like” or “as”. |
| alliteration | the repetition of similar initial consonant sounds in order to create a musical or rhythmic effect, to emphasize key words or to imitate sounds. |
| rhyme scheme | a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem. (To indicate the rhyme scheme of a poem, one uses lower-case letters. Each rhyme is assigned a different letter. The rhyme scheme of a poem, for instance, might be ababcd.) |
| stanza | a group of lines in a poem. |
| narrator | the speaker or character who is telling the story |
| character | refers to what someone is like – what their qualities are |
| character trait | the quality of a character; what a character is like. |
| climax | the highest point of action in a story, often the turning point. |
| conflict | a problem or struggle between two or more forces |
| hyperbole | use of extreme exaggeration. |
| idiom | a word or phrase which means something different from what it says – it is usually a metaphor. An idiom is an expression peculiar to a certain group of people and/or used only under certain circumstances. |
| personification | a type of figurative language in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics. |
| second person point of view | the narrator tells the story to another character using "you," so that the story is being told through the addressee's point of view. |
| setting | the time and location of the events described in a literary work. |
| subject | who or what the story is about; the topic |
| theme | a central message, idea, or concern that expressed in a literary work. |
| third person limited point of view | a method of storytelling in which the narrator knows only the thoughts and feelings of a single character, while other characters are presented externally. |
| third person omnicient point of view | A method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story, as opposed to third person limited, which adheres closely to one character's perspective. |
| onomatopoeia | is a word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound that describes. |
| symbolism | something stands for or represents more than itself |
