| A | B |
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| alliteration | the repetition of beginning consonant sounds in words |
| antagonist | the villain in a story |
| climax | the most interesting or exciting point of a story |
| comedy | drama that amuses or has a happy ending |
| conflict | the struggle between opposing forces |
| dialogue | a conversation between characters |
| drama | a story told in action; actors use costumes, scenery, and dialogue |
| essay | a brief writing on a topic |
| foreshadowing | hints from the author about later events |
| hyperbole | exaggeration |
| metaphor | a comparison claiming that one thing is another thing |
| mood | the dominant emotion in a work |
| narrative fiction | a fictitious story |
| plot | the sequence of events in a story |
| personification | a figure of speech giving human qualities to non-human objects |
| point of view | the perspective of the author (1st person, 3rd person, or omniscient) |
| prose | ordinary written language |
| protagonist | the hero or main character |
| secondary characters | characters who are important to the story, but are not the protagonist or antagonist |
| setting | time of place in a story |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as" |
| stage direction | words in a drama script that are not read, but tell the actors or readers what to do |
| theme | the central idea in a literary work |
| tone | the author's attitude toward his subject (formal, informal, serious, sarcastic, etc.) |
| tragedy | drama in which the main character meets an unhappy end |
