Liturature

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alliteration is the repitition of initial constant sounds.

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Alleration

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An allusion is a reference to a well-known person, event, place, literary work, or work of art. Allusions allow the writer to express complex ideas without spelling them out. Understanding what a literary work is saying often depends on recognizing its allusions and the meanings they suggest.

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Allusion

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An analogy makes a comparison between two or more things that are simular in some ways but otherwise unlike

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Analogy

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An anecdote is a brief story about an interesting, amusing, or strange event. Writers tell anecdotes to entertain or to make a point.

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Anecdote

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An antagonist is a character or a force in conflict with a main character, or protagonist.

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Antagonists

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Atmosphere, or mood, is the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage.

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Atmosphere

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Characterization is the act of creating and developing a character. Authors use major methods of characterization--direct and indirect. When using direct characterization, a writer states the characters' traits, or characteristics.

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Charactarsation

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An autobiography is the story of the writer's own life, told by the writer. Autobiographical writing may tell about the person's whole life or only a part of it.

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Auto biography

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a biography is a form of of nonfiction in which a writer tells the life story of another person

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Biography

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The climex is also called the turning point, is the high point of the plot

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Turning Point

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a concrete poem is one with a shape that suggest its subject

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Concrete poem

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a conflict is a struggle between two forces

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Conflict

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the connotion of a word is the set of ideas associated with it in addition to its explicit meaning

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Connotation

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the denotation of a meaning is its dictionary meaning

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Denotation

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dialect is a form of launguage spoken by people in a particular region or group

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Dialect

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A dialogue is a conversation between two characters.

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Dialog

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Diction is a writer's word choice and the way the writer puts those words together. It is the writers style. Can be formal, informal, plain or fancy, old-fashioned or modern.

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Diction

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A drama is a story written to be preformed by actors.

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Drama

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A fable is a brief story or poem, that teaches a lesson, or moral. The moral is usually stated at the end of the fable.

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Fable

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A fantasy is a highly imaginative writing that contains elements not found in real life.

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Fantasy

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Fiction is prose writing that tells about imaginary characters and events.

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fiction

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A flashback is a scene within a story that interrupts the sequence of events to relate events that occurred in the past.

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flash back

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A folk tale is a story that is passed from person to person orally. (by word of month.)

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folktale

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Foreshadowing is the author's use of clues to hint at what might happen later in the story. It builds readers' expectatio0ns and creates suspense.

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for shadowing

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A genre is a division or type of literature. it is divided into three major genres; poetry, prose, and drama.

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genre

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the haiku is a three - line japanese verse form.

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haiku

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Historical context includes the actual political and social events and trends of the time.

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historical contest

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irony is a contradiction between what happens and what is expected

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irony

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A legend is a widely told story about the past---one that may or may not have a foundation in fact. Every culture has its own legends.

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legend

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a limerick is a humorous rhyming five line poam with a specific meter and rhythem scheme

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limerick

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a metaphor is a figure of speech in which somthing is described as though it were thing else

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metaphor

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the meter of a poem is its rhythmical pattern

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meter

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a moral is a lesson taught by a litery work

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moral

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a motive is a reason that explain or partially explains a character's thoughts feeling actions or speech

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motive

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a myth is a fictional tale that explains the action of god or heroes

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myth

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narration is writing that tells a story

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narrator

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nonfiction is a prose writing that presents and explains idea or that tells about real poeple, places, objects, or events

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nonfiction

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onomatapoeia is the use of words that imitates a sound(s)

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onomatopoeia

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personification is the type of figurtive language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

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personification

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the plot is the sequence in events

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plot

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prose is the ordinary form of writen laguage

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prose

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the protagonist is the main charactor in literary work

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protagonist

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the resolaution is the outcome of a conflict in a plot

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resolution

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science fiction combines element of fiction and faticy with a scientific fact

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science fiction

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the setting of a literary work is the time and place of the action

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setting

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a simile is a figure of speech

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simile

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a staza is a group of poetry that uses a pattern

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stanza

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A surprise ending is a conclusion that is unexpected.

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surprise ending

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suspence is a feeling of anxious uncertainy about the outcome of events in a literary work

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suspense

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A symbol is anything that stands for or represents something else.

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symbol

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The theme is a central message in a literary work.

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theme

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A tragedy is a work of literature, that results in a catastrophe for the main character.

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tragedy

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the climax is usually the turning point, is the high point of the action in the plot

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climax