| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Irony | surprising interesting contridictions |
| Hyperbole | exaggeration or overstatement |
| Imagery | the descriptive language used in literature to see scenes |
| Epic Simile | a "long" simile |
| Plot | sequence of events in literary work |
| Alliteration | repitition of consanant sounds |
| Novel | an extended work of fiction that often has a complicated plot |
| Genre | a type or class of reading |
| Culture | type of society or the way they live |
| Diction | style or writing or talking |
| Theme | the main idea of story |
| Personification | person given animal qualities |
| Fiction | made up, not real |
| Non-fiction | not made up, actually real, or proven to be true |
| Essay | passage of writing usually has five paragraphs and at least five sentances in each paragraph |
| Biography | story about ones life, written by another person |
| Autobiography | story about ones life written by that person |
| Literature | writing made by a person in their interest |
| Point of view | section of writing written by that person as if they were in the story |
| Figurative Language | speech or writing that has figures of speech in it |
| Metaphor | comparing something directly to another object |
| Simile | comparing something using like or as |
| Synecdoche | figure of speech where part is used for whole |
| Syntax | study of rules where words and phrases are put together to form sentance structures |
| Rhetorical Strategies | writing strategies |
| Symbolism | representing something with symbols |
| Main Idea | main point of story |
| Poetry | rythmic writing with certain amounts of lines and rhythem |
| Haiku | japanese poetry with lines of 5 7 5 |
| Free Verse | unryhmed poem having no order |
| Epic Poem | long narrative poem written about a heros deeds |
| Narrative Poem | poem about a story |
| End Ryhme | the last word of each line that ryhmes |
| Internal Ryhme | ryhming withen a line |
| Terza Ryhme | has a three line rhyme scheme |
| Consanance | the repeat of consanants in a poem |
| Assonance | repitition of sound |
| Prose | the oridary from of writing poetry |
| Short Story | short writing about a short story with a problem and a resolve |
| Editorial | an atricle by a publisher about someone elses work |
| Drama | dramatic writing |
| Chronological | number order |
| in media res | meaning in the midst of things |
| Epistolary Narrative | novel written as series of documents |
| Frame Narrative | tale withen another tale |
| Myth | urban legend that isnt true |
| Understatement | a disclosure that is not complete |
| Paradox | is a statement or group of statements that leads to a contradiction or a situation which defies intuition |
| Tone | mood reader gets when reading |
| Classical Tragedy | classic story with a tradgic ending |
| Tragic HEro | character with tragic flaw |
| Deus Ex Machina | a character itroduced to situation quick and unexpectidly |
| Aside | actor speeks to auidiance |
| Dialogue | characters say in story |
| Idiom | phrase whose meaning cannot be determined |
| Cognate | words related in language |
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