| A | B |
|---|
| dialogue | converation between2 or more people |
| dialect | regional speech |
| monologue | conversation of one person |
| protagonist | good guy; hero |
| antagonist | villain |
| anecdote | funny saying |
| alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| biography | story one writes about anothers life |
| ballad | songlike poem |
| epic | long narrative poem |
| fiction | not true |
| foreshadowing | giving clues for future events |
| exposition | "show all" details in the beginning of story |
| genre | style, type of literature, music, etc. |
| haiku | 17 syllable poem with three lines |
| image | a picture created by language that stimulates the mind |
| fantasy | highly imaginative writing |
| dramatic poetry | poetry that utilizes the techniques of drama; describes setting, background, action |
| denouement | plot |
| lyric poem | musical verse that expresses observations and feelings of a single speaker |
| metaphor | comparison without using like or as |
| simile | comparison using like or as |
| meter | rhythmical patteen determined by the number of stresses or beats per line |
| narrative poem | poem that tells a story |
| moral | learn a lesson |
| oral tradition | pass down stories from generation to generation |
| novel | long work of fiction |
| onomatopoeia | sound words--"pop," "buzz" |
| plot | sequence of events in a literary work |
| octave | eight-line stanza |
| paradox | statement that seems contradictory but actually may be true |
| scanning | involves marking stressed and unstressed syllables (see notes) |
| poetry | one of 3 major types of literature--poetry, prose, drama |
| static character | character doesn't change throughout story |
| flat character | reader only sees one trait of character |
| quatrain | four-line stanza |
| round character | shows many different traits of character |
| rhythm | pattern of beats and stresses in spoken/written language |
| rhyme scheme | regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem |
| theme | central message in a story |
| tone | writer's attitude |
| mood | the atmosphere of the story |
| setting | time and place of action |
| first person | when character in story tells the story |
| stanza | formal division of lines in a poem |
| visual essay | expoloration of a topic that conveys its ideas through visual elements and language |
| sestet | six-line stanza |
| soliloquy | long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage |
| cinquain | five-line stanza |
