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Alliteration
A repetion of sound or letter at the beginning of words
Allusion
A referenc3 to a famous person place event of work of literation
Antagonist
hte bad guy the force working against the proagonist
author's purpose
the author's reason for creating a particular work
Autobiography
nonfiction in witch a person tell tell a story anout there own life
Biography
the story of aperson's life written by someone else
Cause
why an event happens
Effect
what happens(follows the cause)
Character
person, animal, or imaginary creature that a story is about
Major Character
a cgaracter the story is mainly about
Minor Character
a less important character
Characterization
all the techniques writers use to create and devlop characters
Chronological order
the order in witch things happen in time
Climax
IN PLOT OF THE STORY, THE TURNING POINT OR THE MOST EXITING PART
CONFLICT
Struggle between opposing forces
internal conflict
struggle within a character
External conflict
a character struggles against another character or an outside force
contrast
pointing out differences between things
dialect
form of langue that is spoken in a certain group of people
dialogue
the words that characters speak aloud
drawing conclusions
combining several poeces of information to make inference
fable
a brief story that teaches a lesson
fansty
a story that takes place in an unreal imaginary world. They often invole magic or characters with superhuman powers
fiction
Imaginative; not true
flashback
an interrupion of the action tp present a scene that took place at an earlier time
foreshadowing
a writer provides a hint that suggeats future events in a story
Free verse
poetry without regular patterns of rhyme and rhythm
hyperboole
exaggereation or overstatement
idiom
an expression that has a meaning different from the meaning of its endividual words
imagery
words and phrases that appeal to readers' senses
inference
logical guess or conclusion based on evidence
irony
a contrasr between what is expected and what actually exists or happens.
metaphor
a comparison of two things that have some quality in common
mood
is a feeling that a literary work conveys to readers; atmosphere
narrator poetry
poetry that tells a story
narrator
the teller of the story
Nonfiction
Writing that tells about real people,places, and events
onomatopoeia
the use of words whose sound suggests their meaning
parrallelism
the use of similar grammatical to ezpress ideas that are equal in importance
personification
the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea
plot
the sequence of events that make up the story
exposition
introduce the characters and establishes the main idea
point of view
perspective
protagonist
the main character; good guy
repetition
using a sound word or phrase more than once
rhyme scheme
a patteren of rhymes in a peme; uses the same letter for lines that rhyme
rhythm
the beat of the poem
simile
comparison of two things using like or as
speaker
in a poem, the voice that talks to the reader
stanze
a paragraph within a poem
sterrotype
a generalization about a group of people
suspence
fellling of growing tension and excitement
symbol
a person, place, or object that stands for something else
theme
the message about life that is conveyed by a story