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| Alliteration | two or more words in a row begin with the same sound |
| Anatagonist | The person who fights against the protagonist |
| Article | Writing that is serious in tone filled with facts |
| Author's Purpose | The authors reason for writing |
| Autobiography | A story of a person's life written by that person |
| Biography | A story about someone's life written by another person |
| Characterization | The method used to create characters (example-speech) |
| Climax | The turning point of the story |
| Closed Plot | The story has a falling action and resolution |
| Confict | Problem or struggle |
| Connotation | What is meant beyond the dictionary definition (tone) |
| Denotation | The specific diction definition |
| Dialouge | Converstion between two or more characters |
| Director | The person in charge of the artist's interpretation of the production |
| Drama | A type of literature written in prose (paragraph form) or verse to be acted on stage or performed in front of camera |
| Dramatic Irony | The reader or audience knows more than the character |
| End Rhyme | End words in a line of poetry that share a particular sound |
| Epic | A long tale |
| Essay | Writing that is a discussion of a specific topic |
| External Conflict | Man against man or man against nature or man against society |
| Fable | A story where the characters are animals and there is a moral (lesson) |
| Falling Action | The event that occurring after the climax |
| Fantasy | A literary genre in which the story could never be true-involves creatures and magic |
| Fiction | A made-up story |
| Figurative Language | Language expanded beyond its ordinary meaning |
| First Person | The narrator is the protagonist(main character) -story told using "I" |
| Flashback | An interruption in the action to show an earlier event |
| Folk Tale | Stories and legends originated and handed down by ordinary people (folks) |
| Foreshadow | When the author gives clues to coming events |
| Free Verse | A style of poetry that is very irregular |
| Genre | A form or type of literary work |
| Historical Fiction | A fiction story that is based on real facts |
| Hyperbole | An exaggeration |
| Imagery | The using of concrete details-appeals to a readers senses and emotions |
| Inciting Force | The event that tuggs the conflict |
| Inference | Drawing a logical conclusion from hints or clues |
| internal Conflict | Man verses himself-infers thoughts and feelings |
| Ironic Twist | A surprise ending |
| Irony | A contrast between what appears to be and what really is |
| Legend | A story about an unknown author handed down over the years |
| Literal | The strict dictionary meaning that makes sense |
| Local Color | The uses of native costumes and language to make story more interesting |
| Lyric | An emotional poem |
| Metaphor | Comparison not using "like" or "as" |
| Meter | The number of beats in a line of poetry |
| Monologue | A person speaking his thought aloud |
| Mood | The overall atmosphere of feeling of a story |
| Moral | the lesson or teaching in a fable or story |
| Mystery | Something unsolved-clues given |
| Myth | A traditional story explained why something occurrs to nature, usually involves Gods and Goddesses |
| Nonfiction | A true story |
| Novel | A story divided into chapters with a complex plot |
| Ode | A dedication |
| Onomatopeia | When a word is forme by imitation of sounds (ex-cuckoo) |
| Open Plot | The story has no resolution |
| Personification | When you give human qualities to something that is not real |
| Plot | THe events that make-up a story |
| Point of View | The author's choice of narrator |
| Producer | The person who supplies the financial support of a product |
| Protagonist | The main character |
| Resolution | The problem is solved |
| Rhyme | The repition of a sound or syllable |
| Rhyme Scheme | The actual pattern of end rhymes in a pattern |
| Rhythm | The movement of a poem |
| Rising Action | The event leading up to the climax |
| Science Fiction | A genre that is a mixture of technology and fiction-could be possible |
| Setting | A time and place where a story occurrs |
| Short Story | A style of literature inwhich the plot moves quickly-there are fewer characters and no chapters |
| Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" |
| Sitional Irony | The opposite of what is expected occurrs |
| Soliloquy | When a character speaks his or her thoughts aloud |
| Stage Manager | A person who is in charge of costumes, scenery and props |
| Stanza | A group of a certain number of lines, usually 4 or 9, forming a poems divisions |
| Stereotype | When a character and/or the plot following a predictable pattern |
| Symbol | A sign that stands for something else |
| Theme | The main idea or underlying message of a story |
| Third Person Objective | An outside narration who reports what he sees/ hears |
| Third Person Ominiscient | Narrator is all knowing |
| Tone | The author's attitude toward his/her subject |
| Verbal Irony | The opposite of what is said is meant |
