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| Myth | a fictional tale that explains the actions of Gods or Heroes or the causes of natural phenomena |
| Poetry | one of the three major types of literature |
| sonnet | 14 line lyric poem focused on a single theme. |
| Biography | a form of nonfiction in which a writer tells the life story of another person |
| Autobiography | a form of nonfiction in which a person tells his or her own life story |
| Parable | simple story used to illistrate a moral or spiritual lesson |
| Gothic Literature | the use of primitive, medieval, wild, or mysterious elements in literature |
| Transcendentalism | an american literary and philosophical movement of the nineteenth century |
| satire | writing that ridicules or criticizes individuals, ideas, institutions, social conventions, or other works of art or literature |
| Folktale | story originated by inpopular culture |
| Antithesis | The placement of opposite ideas close together in order to emphasize a point |
| Repitition | action of repeating something that has already been read or written |
| Anology | and extended comparison of relationships |
| Anaphora | to use a word referring to or replacing a word |
| anecdote | brief story about an interesting smusing or strange event |
| logos | persuasion that appeals to a persons logic or reasoning |
| Pathos | persuasion that appeals to a persons emotions |
| Ethos | persuasion that attemps to establish the speakers credibility or authority with his audience |
| Omniscient third - third person point of view | the narrator knows and tells about what each character feels and thinks |
| Persuasion | writing or speech that attempts to convince a reader to think or act in a particular way |
