| Term | Definition |
|---|
| literature | body of writings of a specific language, ect. |
| genre | type of book |
| culture | a societies beliefs and way of life |
| diction | style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words |
| theme | the hidden meaning behin the literary work |
| imagery | writing that appeals to the senses |
| point of view | the perspective the story is wrote in |
| figurative language | speech or writing employing figures of speech |
| metaphor | comparison of two things not using like or as |
| simile | comparison of two things using like or as |
| synecdoche | part of something for the whole |
| hyperbole | exageration |
| personification | giving non human things human characteristics |
| epic simile | a long simile |
| syntax | study of gramatical sentence formation |
| rhetorical strategies | stratiges used to remember rhetorical things |
| symbolism | using symbols to represent something |
| plot | the plan of the story |
| main idea | the main point of a literary work |
| poetry | literary work in metrical form, usually has a rhym scheme |
| haiku | about nature, five sylables, seven sylables, the five sylabes |
| free verse | peotry without a rhym |
| epic | long poem that tells a story, usually about heros |
| narrative poem | poem that tells a story, and has a plot |
| alliteration | the repretition of two or more stressed sylables |
| end rhyme | rhyming of sylables at the end of a line of poetry |
| internal rhyme | rhyme of two or more words in the same verse |
| terza rima | three line rhyme |
| consonance | correspondents of sound |
| assonance | resemblance of sounds |
| prose | no metrical sound |
| fiction | writing that is fake and not wrote about real events |
| non fiction | writing about something that actiually happend |
| short story | short story, fictional |
| novel | long story, usually a couple hundred pages long, has chapters |
| essay | report writen on a subject |
| editorial | opinion of reporter |
| biography | writen about a person's life by someone else |
| autobiography | writen about a person's life by the person themselfs |
| drama | dramatic writing, usually a play |
| character | a person in a story |
| irony | using words to convey a meaning opposite to literal meaning |
| chronological | in order from first to last |
| in media res | media res |
| flashback | part in a story that refers back to a previous part |
| epistolary narrtive | epic narrative |
| frame narritive | narrative writen in differnt frames |
| myth | imagenary, fake |
| understatement | making light of things |
| paradox | statement that is self contradictory |
| tone | the mood set by the author with the word use |
| classical tragedy | a story with a sad ending |
| tragic hero | makes an error of judgement or a fatal flaw |
| deus ex machina | god as machine |
| aside | when a character speaks of to th side away from the group |
| dialogue | conversation |
| idiom | an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements |
| cognate | realated, similar |
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