| A | B |
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| semicolon | used like a period |
| apostrophe | used to show possession |
| colon | used before a list |
| alliteration | pink panther |
| assonance | how now |
| simile | You are as angry as a bee. |
| onomatopoeia | The crackling fire was cozy. |
| metaphor | You are the sunshine of my life. |
| plot | the story line |
| setting | time and place in a story |
| characterization | personality trait of characters |
| theme | central message of a work |
| style | writers way of writing |
| point of view | perspective from which the story is told (1st, 2nd, 3rd person) |
| symbolism | uses something to represent something else |
| foreshadowing | giving clues to suggest events that have yet to occur |
| mood | feeling created (in the reader) by a work |
| irony | contrast between what is stated and what is meant |
| personification | a non-human subject is given human traits |
| allusion | a reference to a well-known person, place, event, or literary work to make the writing stronger |
| stanza | groups of lines in a poem - paragraphs, stanzas |
| imagery | descriptive or figurative language used to create word pictures for the reader |
| flashback | a section in a literary work that interrupts the chronological order of events to relate an event from an earlier time. (goes back in time) |
| protagonist | the good main character |
| antagonist | the bad main character |
| passive | when the subject receives the action of a verb |
| adjective | word that describes somebody or something. |
| adverb | a word that modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb. It tells "how, when, where, why, how often, and how much." There are 4 classifications: time, place, manner, and degree. |
| clause | group of related words that has both a subject and a predicate. |
| gerund | verb form that ends in -ing and is used as a noun. |
| hyperbole | "My date last night was the most beautiful girl in the world." |
| oxymoron | "Jumbo shrimp" |
| fiction | A literary work whose content is produced by the imagination and is not necessarily based on fact |
| symbol | A person, place, thing, or an event that has meaning in itself and stands for something beyond itself as well; it can signify something else |
| biography | An account of a person’s life written or told by another person |
| dialogue | Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative |
| science fiction | Fiction that deals with the influence of real or imagined science on society or individuals; many of the events recounted are within the realm of future possibility |
| fantasy | Imaginative fiction featuring esp. strange settings and grotesque characters; things happen that can not happen in real life |
| autobiography | The angle or perspective from which a story is told |
| antagonist | The character that contends with or opposes another character |
| theme | The general idea or insight about life that a work of literature reveals |
| foreshadowing | The introduction of clues early in a story to suggest or anticipate significant events that will develop later |
| resolution | The last part of the story when the characters’ problems are solved and the story ends |
| narrator | The person who tells the story |
| climax | The point of highest dramatic tension or a major turning point in the action; the most emotional or suspenseful moment in story |
| protagonist | The main character in a literary work |
| conflict | The struggle between persons or forces in a work of drama or fiction |
| dialect | The way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain geographical area or a certain group of people |
| nonfiction | Writing that deals with real people, things, events, or places |
| dynamic | a character who changes |
| static | a character who does not change |
| soliloquy | long speech by a character who is alone |
| plot | sequence of events |
| exposition | background;intro of characters |
| resolution | outcome, result |
