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| first person point of view | one of the characters in the story tells the story, using first-person pronouns |
| third person point of view | an unknown narrator tells the story, but this narrator zooms in to focus on the thoughts and feelings of only one character |
| omniscient point of view | and "all-knowning" narrator tells the story using third-person pronouns |
| pun | a "play on words" based on the multiple meanings of a single word or on words that sound alike but mean different things |
| quatrain | a poem consisting of four lines, or four lines of a poem that can be considered as a unit |
| refrain | a word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated, for effect, several times in a poem |
| simile | a figure of speech that makes an explicit comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, than, or resembles |
| satire | a type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring about a change |
| setting | the time and location where a story takes place |
| point of view | the vantage point from which the writer tells a story |
| rising action | refers to all the actions that take place before the turning point, this is the point at which the hero experiences a reversal of fortune |
