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| point of view | the vantage point from which the story is told |
| dialogue | the talk that goes on between two or more characters |
| setting | when and where a story takes place |
| characters | the people or animals involved in the story |
| theme | the main idea or insight about life that the author is trying to convey |
| plot | the sequence of events that make up a story |
| imagery | the descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader |
| simile | a comparison which uses the words like or as |
| personification | giving lifelike qualities to inanimate objects |
| end rhyme | occurs when rhyming words come at the end of the line |
| metaphor | a comparison which does use like or as |
| ballad | narrative-driven; usually written in 4-line stanzas; 2nd and 4th lines rhyme |
| blues poem | about life's woes; traditionally, stanza contains 3 lines; all lines rhyme, with the second being a slight variation of the first |
| senryu | similar to haiku but focuses on human nature and events |
| haiku | Japanese poem usually about nature; contains 17 syllables; 5-7-5 pattern |
| tanka | five line Japanese poem consisting of 31 syllables; follows this pattern: 5-7-5-7-7 |
| clerihew | four line poem about a celebrity; aabb rhyme scheme |
| limerick | five line nonsense poem with aabba pattern |
| cinquain | poem of five lines with 22 syllables; traditionally, follows this pattern: 2,4,6,8,2 |
| style | a distinctive manner of expression |
| scenes | the parts of the story in which the writer's attention is tightly focused on a particular point in the progression of events |
| free verse | poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern; dominant form of contemporary poetry |
| parody | an imitation of anything famous |
