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| allegory | story where characters, places, and other items are symbols and the emphasis of the story is a moral truth |
| allusion | reference in a literary work to the Bible, myhology, history, or other literature |
| apostrophe | addressing an inanimate object as if it were alive |
| autobiography | written account of one's own life |
| ballad | short, narrative folk song which tells a single event in an objective manner |
| ballad stanza | a four line stanza where |
| biography | written account of a person's life |
| climax | the point of greatest interest |
| comparison | figurative language including metaphors, similes, and personifications |
| conflict | clash of actions, ideas, forces or wills |
| dialect | regional language |
| diaolgue | conversations between characters |
| fable | brief moral tale where characters are usually animals |
| imagery | words which appeal to the senses |
| irony | saying one thing and meanin something else |
| limerick | a humorous five line poem |
| metaphor | implied comparison in which one thing is described in terms of another |
| paraphrase | retelling in one's own words |
| personification | human qualities given to inanimate objects ro animals |
| plot | arrangement of events in a story or play |
| pun | a play on words |
| realism | use of details to present a truthful interpretation of life |
| refrain | repetition of a line or phrase in poetry or music |
| rhyme | the repetition of sounds |
| rhymed couplet | two rhyming lines which express a complete thought |
| rhythm | the regular recurrence of sounds |
| romanticism | adventruous, excitiong, or unusual presentation of life |
| setting | background of time, place, and circumstances in a story |
| simile | an expressed comparision of unlike things using like, as, resemble, or the phrase , similar to |
| speaker | person through whom ideas and attitudes are expressed |
| stanza | unit of repeated lines |
| surprise ending | surprising turn of events at the end of a story |
| suspense | reader's feeling of uncertainty regarding the action or outcome of a story |
| symbol | something which has meaning in itself and also represents something beyond itself |
| theme | the main idea of a story or poem |
| tone | the speaker's attitude |
