| A | B |
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| narrative | a story, a report of what has happened. |
| predicate | In a sentence tells what the subject does or has, a simple one is a verb. |
| imperative | sentence which gives a command or makes a request |
| idiom | A phrase or expression that has a different meaning from what the individual words usually mean. |
| alliteration | the repeating of consonant sounds that begin words. |
| autobiography | the biography or life of a person written by herself or himself. |
| biography | the biography or life of a person written by someone else. |
| conflict | a problem that needs to be solved in a story. |
| rising action | The buildup of excitement in a story. |
| narrator | the person telling the story. |
| stanza | group of lines in a poem separated by a space; the Italian for room. |
| myth | an ancient traditional story of gods or heroes, trying to explain a fact. |
| onomatopoeia | A word that imitates a sound of the thing meant; BOOM |
| persistence | Not give up in spite of failure. To continue constantly, in spite of opposition. |
| inclusion | the act of including, to take in, not left out. |
| figurative language | Using a word or phrase that does not have its normal everyday literal meaning. |
| interrogative | a type of sentence which asks a question |
| assonance | term used to refer to the repetition of a vowel sound in a line. |
| I | first person point of view, the narrator uses ** to refer to himself or herself. |
| Four | The number of lines in a quatrain, a stanza in a poem. |
