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| meter | a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry |
| monologue | speech given by one person |
| narrative | the story itself |
| narrator | a person who tells the story |
| nonfiction | writing that is real, true or factual |
| ode | a lyric poem, usually long, on a serious subject and written in dignified language |
| onomatopoeia | the use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning |
| ottava rima | a stanza consisting of eight lines of eleven syllables each in iambic pentameter and having a rhyme pattern |
| paradox | a statement that appears self-contradictory but that reveals a kind of truth |
| parallelism | the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures |
| narration | the act or process of telling a story |
| personification | a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feeling, thoughts, or attitudes |
| plot | the series of related events in a story or play, sometimes called the storyline |
