| A | B |
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| symbol | a word or object that stands for something else |
| theme | insight into life revealed by literature |
| comparison | shows how things are alike |
| contrast | shows how things are different |
| cause | what makes things happen |
| effect | what happens as a result of a cause |
| suspense | the quality of a story that makes you wonder what will happen next |
| motive | the reason for taking a particular action |
| diary | a day by day record of things seen, done, thought, or felt by an author |
| tragedy | literature, often drama, ending in catastrophe for the protagonists after dealing with a series of problems |
| comedy | fictional writing that has a happy ending for its major characters and contains humor |
| adventure novel | novel involving travel |
| historical novel | novel using historical facts as its basis for plot or setting, but including imaginary characters and dialogue |
| mystery novel | novel in which you see "who done it" |
| allusion | a reference, usually brief, to a person or thing or other work of literature that the writer expects the reader to recognize |
| anecdote | brief account of some interesting or humorous happening, sometimes biographical in nature |
| moral | a lesson or truth about life that concludes a fable |
| act | main division of a play |
| chronological or time order | arranged or organized according to the order of time |
| scene | division of an act in a play |
| tall tale | a story built on exaggeration |
| connotation | the associations or emotions tht a word suggests apart from its literal definition |
| denotation | the literal meaning of a word found in a dictionary |
| diction | choice and use of words for effectiveness and clarity in speech or writing |
| organization | the conscious way a writer puts together a literary work |
