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| Alliteration | The repeating of beginning consonant sounds |
| Allusion | A reference to a person, place, or thing. |
| Atmosphere(Mood) | The overall emotional feeling that the details the author uses creates. |
| Character Traits | The qualities that make up a character's personality. |
| Action | Real or fictional events that comprise the subject of a novel, story, poem, or play. |
| Irony | A literary technique that involves surprising, interesting, or amusing contradictions. |
| Characterization | The way a writer presents a character in a story. |
| Flat Character | A one dimensional character that shows only a single personality trait and stays that way throughout the story. |
| Round Character | A character that shows several sides to their personality. |
| Analogy | A comparison that explains an idea or thing by comparing it to another thing that is more familiar. |
| Chronological Order | Events that follow one another in proper time order. |
| Climax | The point of greatest emotional impact in a story. |
| Conflict | A struggle between two opposing forces. |
| Dialogue | A direct conversation between characters. |
| Flashback | A scene that is inserted into a story showing events that occurred in the past. |
| Foreshadowing | The use of hints or clues to suggest action before it happens. |
| Genre | A category of literature. |
| Hyperbole | An obvious exaggeration used to emphasize a point or add excitement and humor to a story. |
| Idiom | An expression that has a meaning of its own which is different that the literal meaning of the words. |
| Inference | A conclusion based on evidence. |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech that compares two unlike things and does not use the words like, as, or than to make the comparison. |
| Motive | An emotion or need that causes a person to act in a certain way. |
| Onomatopoeia | Words that are spelled the way they sound. |
| Personification | To give human qualities or traits to lifeless objects or abstract qualities. |
| Plot | A series of related events that present and bring about the resolution of a conflict. |
| Pun | A play on words that involves the humorous use of a word to emphasize different meanings or applications. |
| First person POV | The narrator is a character in the story. |
| 3rd person objective POV | The narrator is not a character in the story. He/she is an observer who reports only what is seen or heard. |
| Antagonist | A character or group of characters which stand in opposition to the main character. |
| Protagonist | The main character, hero, or heroine in a literary work. |
| Simile | A comparison between two unlike things using the words like as or than to make the comparison. |
| 3rd Person Omniscient POV | The narrator is not a character in the story but is all knowing and can see into the hearts and minds of all the characters. |
| Setting | The time and place in which a story takes place. |
| 3rd Person Limited POV | The narrator is not a character in the story and can tell the story from the vantage point of one character. |
| Resolution | The way a story comes to a close. |
| Theme | The central idea of a story or the general idea about life that is revealed in a story. |
| Symbol | An object or action that means something more or stand for something other than its literal meaning. |
