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| short story | a story with a fully developed theme but significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel. |
| character | as any person, animal, or figure represented in a literary work |
| poetry | literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm |
| speech | a formal address or discourse delivered to an audience |
| conflict | any struggle between opposing forces. Usually, the main character struggles against some other force |
| plot | the events that make up a story, or the main part of a story. These events relate to each other in a pattern or a sequence. |
| climax | the story's central turning point—the moment of peak tension or conflict—which all the preceding plot developments have been leading up to |
| main character | in a story have many roles and purposes, all of them dictated by the writer's intent and style. The protagonist (sometimes called the hero or heroine) is the main character in a story, novel, drama, or other literary work. The protagonist is the character that the reader or audience empathizes with |
| setting | where and when a story or scene takes place |
| theme | a universal idea, lesson, or message explored throughout a work of literature |
| mood | the general atmosphere or emotional complexion—in short, the array of feelings the work evokes in the reader |
| irony | a literary device or event in which how things seem to be is in fact very different from how they actually are |
| memoir | factual stories about someone's life. The word is derived from the French word mémoire, which means 'reminiscence' or 'memory.' They are a part of the nonfiction literary genre and are usually told in the first person. |
| suspense | the intense feeling that an audience goes through while waiting for the outcome of certain events. It basically leaves the reader holding their breath and wanting more information. |
| dialogue | the exchange of spoken words between two or more characters in a book, play, or other written work |
| novel | a long, fictional narrative which describes intimate human experiences. |
| prose | so-called "ordinary writing" — made up of sentences and paragraphs, without any metrical (or rhyming) structure |
| stanza | a group of lines forming a smaller unit within a poem |
| rhyme scheme | a poet's deliberate pattern of lines that rhyme with other lines in a poem or a stanza. The rhyme scheme, or pattern, can be identified by giving end words that rhyme with each other the same letter. |
| expository text | a genre of writing which tends to explain, illustrate, clarify, or explicate something in a way that it becomes clear for readers. Therefore, it could be an investigation, evaluation, or even argumentation about an idea for clarification. |
