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| alliteration | repetition of the same or very similar consonant sound in words that are close together in a poem |
| allusion | reference to a statementm a person, a place or an event from literature history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or pop |
| analogy | comparison made between two things to show how they are alike in some respects |
| autobiography | an account of the writer's own life |
| biography | an account of a person's life written or told by another person |
| connotation | all the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests |
| denotation | is the detimation of the word |
| dialect | way of speaking that is charcteristic of a particular region or a particular group |
| epic | long story told in elevated language cusually poetry, which relates the great deeds of a larger that life hero who embodies the values of a particular society |
| fiction | an thing that is invented or imagine |
| flashback | scence in a movie, play, short story, novel, or narriative peom that interupts the present action of the plot to flash backwaards and tell what happen in a earlier time |
| foreshadowing | the use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in a plot |
| irony | contract or discrepancy between expectation and reality between what is said and what is really meant between what is expected to happen and what really does happen, or between what appears to be true and what is really true |
| metaphor | figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things in which one thing becomes another thing without the use of the word like, as, that, or resembles |
| personification | kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or equality is taked about as if it were huan |
| simile | figure of speech that makes comarison between two unlike things using a word such as, like, as, resembles, or than |
| soliloquy | an usually long speech in which a character who is on stage alone expresses his or her thoughts alound |
| antagonist | a person that opposes the main character |
| blank verse | poetry written in unrhymediambic pentamter |
| castastrophe | the tradge denovement of a play or a story |
| climax | moment of great emotional intensity or suspence in a plot |
| diction | a writter's or speaker's choice of words |
| epithet | adjective or discription phrase that is regularly used to characterize a person place or thing |
| fable | very brief story in prose or verse that teaches a moral, or a practical lesson about how to get along in life |
| hyperbole | figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or to create a comic effect |
| monologue | a long interupt speech |
| mood | the state of mind or feeling that are brought |
| narration | type of writing or speaking that tells about a serious or related events |
| plot | series of related events that make up a story or drama |
| protagonist | main character in a fiction or drama |
| rising action | the events in a play that lead to a turning point the action of a play |
| satire | type of writing that ridicukes something a person, a group of people, hummanity at large, an attitude or failing, a social insititution in order to reveal a weakness |
| aside | words that are spoken by a character in a play to the audience or another character but that are not supposed to be overheard by others on stage |
| assonance | repetition of similar vowel sounds that are followed by different consonant sounds, especially in words that are close together in a poem |
| ballad | song that tells a story folk ballads |
| characterization | the process of revealing the personality of a character in the story |
| narrator | the person or author that tells the story |
| non-fiction | prose writing that deals with reak people, things, events, and places |
| onomatopoeia | use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning |
| setting | the time place of the story or play |
| sonnet | fourteen line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter |
| subplot | the secondary action that is enter wolven in the main action |
| theme | central idea of a work of literature |
| tone | attitude a writer takes towards the audience a subject or a chacter |
| tragedy | play, novel, or other narrative that depicts serious important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end |
| verbal irony | a writer or speaker says one thing but really means something completely different |
