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| Stories | narrative texts that spring from an author's imagination |
| Poetry | the most compact form of literature. Words chosen and arranged through dialogue and action. |
| Drama | meant to be performed. Characters and conflicts are developed through dialogue and action. |
| short story | often focuses on a single event or incident and usually can be read in one sitting. |
| novel | an extended work of fiction. |
| novella | longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. |
| plot | the action of the story |
| setting | the time and place that a story takes place |
| conflict | a struggle between opposing forces in a story or play, usually resolved by the end of the work. these can be internal or external |
| character | the person(s) or animal(s) involved in the action of the story |
| point of view | the perspective from which the text is narrated |
| theme | the big idea behind the story- what the story is really about |
| form | the arrangement of words on the page |
| line | the way in which poems are divided up |
| stanza | the arrangement of lines in a poem |
| speaker | the teller of the poem |
| rhyme | identity in sound of some part, especially the ends of words or lines |
| rhythm | movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent or the cadence of a text |
| meter | poetic measure; arrangement of words in regular, measured, patterned or rhythmic lines |
| sound devices | words used to appeal to our sense of hearing |
| diction | word choice |
| figurative language | language that recreates sensory experiences through for example: comparisons might use similes or metaphors |
| imagery | language which creates sensory experiences, help readers to see, hear or feel what the words describe |
| action | what characters do |
| dialogue | what characters say |
| acts | the way in which scenes are grouped |
| scenes | divide dramas to show time and place |
| stage directions | the writer's instructions for the director, actors and other people working on a play |
| monologue | refers to a speech by one person in a drama; usually an extended part of the text of a play performed by one actor |
| sililoquy | a speech delivered by a character in a play while alone disregardful or oblivious to any hearers present. Frequently used to reveal a character's innermost feelings or thoughts. |
| dialect | The language of a particular district, class or group of persons. It includes sounds, grammar, and diction (word choice) used by a specific people as distiguished from either geographically or socially |
