| A | B |
|---|
| allegory | story which people/things/actions represent idea - generalaztion about life |
| alliteration | repitition of initial consonant sounds in word |
| allusion | reference in literature to familure person/place/thing/idea |
| catharsis | emotional release in form of tears-laughter |
| conflict | problem or struggle in a story that triggers action |
| connotation | 2ndry meaning suggested by word in addition to its literal meaning |
| denotation | to refer to specifically |
| exposition | inteaded to make clear - explain something that might otherwize be hard to understand |
| fable | short simple story that teaches a lesson |
| foreshadowing | give hints/clues to later events in a story |
| imagery | words/phrases to create a certain picture in readers mind |
| irony | uses word-pharse to mean excact opposite of literal/normal meaning |
| metaphor | comparison of 2 unlike things (uses like/as) |
| nonfiction | true story |
| parable | short/descriptive story that illustrates a paticular belief/moral |
| pathos | suffering/passions (brings out pity) |
| personification | giving human qualities to non human things |
| satire | used to ridicule-make fun of human vice or weakness |
| setting | time and place which action takes place |
| theme | statement work is trying to give reader |
| tone | overall feeling/effect |
| refrain | repetition of a line/phrase in regular intervals |
| anthology | collection of literary pieces |
| euphemism | inoffensive team substituted for one considered offensivly explicit |
| stream of consciousness | style of writing in which thoughts/feelings are recored as they occur |
| Nobel Prize | given anually to 1 world writer in any genre |
| pulitzer prise | Americans only |
| O Henery award | best short story given anually that appear in magazines |
| Nebula Award | best SCI-FI voted by writers |
| Hugo award | best SCI-FI voted by readers |
| Newbury Award | children's story writers |
| Caldecott Award | Best artest for illistrations |
| James Thurber AWARD | best short story w/humor |
| anachronism | representation of something exsisting - happening at other than propper/historical time |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds without repitition of consonants |
| fiction | made up/not real |
| hyperbole | an overstatement |
| oxymoron | combination of contradictory terms |
| onomatopoeia | sound that sugests word's meaning |
| simile | comparison of 2 unlike things/ uses like or as |
