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| Alliteration | Repetition of the same sound at the beginning of two or more words that are next to each other or near each other |
| Characters | People or animals in a story, poem, play or film. |
| Dynamic character | One who changes or grows during the story |
| Static character | one who does not change |
| Characterization | Methods a writer uses to reveal a character's personality traits thus making the character seem real |
| Dialogue | Conversation between or among characters |
| Fiction | Story created by the writer |
| Flashback | A technique writer uses to present scenes or events that occurred before the opening scene |
| Foreshadowing | Clues or hints that suggest what will happen next |
| Hyperbole | statement exaggerated so vividly that the reader has an instant picture |
| Idiom | A combination of words that has meaning that is different from the meanings of its individual words |
| Imagery | The use of images in literary work |
| Inference | A reasonable conclusion drawn from clues by the author |
| Metaphor | A comparison of two different things to show a likeness between them that does not use like or as. two unlike things that actually have something in common |
| Mood | the overall emotional feeling or atmosphere in a story |
| Narrator | Person who tells a story |
| Point of view | the angle from which a narrator tells a story |
| First - Person | writer chooses a character to be the narrator to tell the story from his point of view using the pronoun I |
| Third- Person | the narrator is an outsider and speaks in third person using pronouns: he, she, it, they |
| Nonfiction | True account. Any writing that describes things that actually happened |
| Onomatopoeia | Words that are invented to imitate real sounds |
| Personification | giving human qualities to things that are not human. (e.g. The leaves waved at us.) |
| Plot | The action in a story |
| Exposition | releaving information about setting, characters, and conflict |
| rising action | action begins to fall |
| climax | the turning point in the story |
| falling action | action begins to fall |
| resolution | questions are answered about the outcome of the story |
| setting | When and where the story takes place |
| Simile | A comparison of two unlike things that uses like or as |
| Suspense | tension and uncertainty about what will happen next |
| Theme | Main idea or point that the writer is trying to make |
