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Alliteration
A repetition of a sound or letter at the beginning of words.
Allusion
A reference to a famous person, place, event of work of literature
Antagonist
The bad guy; the force working against the protagonist
Author's purpose
The author's reason for creating a particular work; to entertain, to inform, to persuade, to give an opinion
Autobiography
Nonfiction in which a person tells the story of his or her own life.
Biography
The story of a person's life, written by someone else
Cause
Why an event happens
Effect
What happens(follows the cause)
Character
Person, animal, or imaginary creature that the story is about
Major Character
A character the story is mainly about
Minor Character
A less important character
Characterization
All techniques writers use to create and develop characters.
Chronological Order
The order in which things happen in time.
Climax
In the plot of the story, the turning point or the most exciting 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
A from of language that is spoken in a certain place or by a certain group of people
Dialogue
The words that characters speak aloud
Drawing Conclusions
Combining several pieces of information to make an inference
Fable
A brief story that teaches a lesson
Fantasy
A story that takes place in an unreal imaginary world. They often involve magic or characters with superhuman powers.
Fiction
Imaginative; Not true
Flashback
An interruption of the action to present a scene that took place at an earlier time
Foreshadowing
A writer provides a hint that suggests future events in a story
Free Verse
Poetry without regular patterns of rhyme and rhythm
Hyperbole
Exaggeration or overstatement
Idiom
An expression that has a meaning different from the meaning of its individual words
Imagery
Words and phrases that appeal to readers' senses
Inferences
Logical guess or conclusion based on evidence
Irony
A contrast 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
Narrative 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 suggest their meaning
Parallelism
The use of similar grammatical constructions to express 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
Introduces 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 pattern of rhymes in a poem,; 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
Stanza
A paragraph within a poem
Sterotype
A generalization about a group of people
Suspence
Feeling 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
Tone
The writer's attitude toward his subject