Literature

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The repetition of initial consonant sounds.

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Allieration

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A refence to a wellknown person, event, place, literary work, or work of art.

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Allusion

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A comparison between two or more things that are similar in some ways but not other wise.

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Analogy

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A brief story about an interesting, amusing, or stange event.

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Anecdote

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A character or a force in conflict with a main character, or protagonist.

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Antagonist

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A mood, is the feeling created in the reader4 by a literary work or pasage.

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Atmosphere

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An argument is the position he or she puts forward, supported by reasons.

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Author's Argument

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Is his or her main reason for writting.

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Author's Purpose

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A story of the writer's owen life, told by the writer.

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Autobiography

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A form of nonfiction in witch a writer tells the life story of another person.

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Biography

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is the act of creating and devloping a character.

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Characterization

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the turning point, is the high piont in the action of the plot.

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Climax

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a shape that suggests its subjects.

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Concrete Poem

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a stuggle between oppositing forces.

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Conflict

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writer's word choice and the way the writer puts those word s together.

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Diction

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a story written to be preformed by actors.

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Drama

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a brief story or poem, usually with animal characters, that teaches a lesson or moral.

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Fable

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highly imaginative writing that contians elementsnot found in real life.

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Fantasy

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prose writing that tells about imaginary characters and events.

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Fiction

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writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally

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Figurative Lanuage

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a scene within a story that interrupts the sequence of events relate events that occured in the past

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Flashback

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a story composed orally mouth.

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Folk Tale

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the author's use of clues to hint at what might happen later in the story.

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Foreshadowing

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a division or type of literaure.

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Genre

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A three-line Japanese verse form.

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Haiku

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A literary work includes the actual political and social events and trends of the time.

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Historical Context

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A contradiction between what happens and what is exspected.

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Irony

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A widely told story about the past one that may or may not have a foundation in fact.

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Legend

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A humorous, rhyming, fiveline poem with a specific meter and rhyme scheme.

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Limerick

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A figure of speech in witch something is decribed as though it were something else.

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Metaphor

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A poem is its rhythmical pattern.

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Meter

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A lesson taught by a literary work.

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Moral

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A reason that explians or partially explians a characters, feellings, thoughts, actions, speech.

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Motive

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A fictional tale that explians the actions of gods or heroes or the origins of elements of nature

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Myth

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A speaker or character who tells a story.

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Narrator

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A prose writing that presents and explians ideas or that tells about real people, places, objects, or events.

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Nonfiction

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Is the use of words that imitates sounds.

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Onomatopeia

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A type of figuritive language in which a nonhuman subjects is given human characteristics.

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Personifictation

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The sequence of events in which each event results from a previous one and causes the next.

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Plot

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The ordinary form of written languagel.

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Prose

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The main character in literary work.

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Protagonist

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Is the outcome of a conflict in a plot.

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Resolution

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Combines elements of fiction and science fantasy with scientific facts.

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Science Fiction

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A literary work is the time and place of the action.

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Setting

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A figure of speech that uses (like) or (as) to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas.

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Simile

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A group of lines of poetry that are usually similar in lenght and pattern and are seperated by spaces.

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Stanza

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A conclusion that is unexspected

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Surprise Ending

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A feelling of anxious uncedrtianty about the outcome of events in a literary work.

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Suspense

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Is anything that stands for or represents something else.

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Symbol

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A central message in literary work.

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Theme

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A work of literature, especially a play, that results in a catastrophe for the main character.

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Tragedy