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| fiction | Literary work with imaginary characters and events. |
| characters | A person in a literary work. |
| charatierization | The methods a writer uses to develop the personality of the character. |
| plot | The sequence of events in a story, novel, or play. |
| setting | The time and place in which the events of a short story, novel, novella, or play occur |
| theme | A literary work's overall message about life or human nature |
| conflict | A struggle between two opposing forces is usually at the center of a pet |
| internal conflict | A character who is torn between his or her own opposing feelings or goal expierences |
| external conflict | exists when a character struggles against some outside force, as another person, nature, or society |
| connotion | refers to a words implied or suggested meaning |
| denotation | refers to the dictionary meaning of a word |
| diction | authors choice in arrangement of word |
| imagery | creating an image and creating a vivid picture |
| rythm | pattern of beats made by stressed and unstressed syllables |
| narrative poetry | Verse that tells a story |
| alliteration | repeats same beginning sound |
| metaphor | comparingtwo like things without or as |
| simile | compares two like things using like or as |
| onomatopeia | imitation of natural sounds of words |
| dialogue | lines spoken by characters |
| act and scenes | divisions in long dramas that show change in scenes |
| fiction | literarywork with imaginary characters and events; can be short stories or novels comes from authors imagination, prose narrative |
| nonfiction | deals with real people and expirerences; factual prose writing |
| prose | writing that is similiar to everyday speech and language, as opposed to poetry |
| short story | a brief fictional narrative in prose |
| poetry | a form of literary expression that differs from prose in emphasizing the line as the unit of compisition |
| climax | the whole point of the story or movie |
| assonance | the repition of vowel sounds, ecspecially in aline of poetry |
| end ryhme | has ryhming words at the end of two sentences |
| cononance | a pleasing combination of sounds, ecspecially in poetry |
| figurative language | language used for descriptive effect often to imply ideas indirectly |
| meter | a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that gives a line of poetry a predictable rhythm |
| rhyme | the repitition of sounds at the ends of words that appear close to each other in a poem |
| stanza | a group of lines forming a unit poem. |
| lyric poetry | poems, usually short, that express strong personal feelings about a subject or an event |
| screenplay | the script of a film, usually containig detailed instructions about camera shots and angles |
| teleplay | a play written or adapted for television |
