| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Literature | The Writeing of leterary work exp. as an ocupation |
| Genre | Type |
| Culture | Characteristic features of a civilization including its beliefs ext... |
| Diction | a writers word choice |
| Theme | the central idea |
| imagery | using lterature to recreat a sensory experience |
| point of view | the perspective or vantage point from which the story is told |
| figurative language | writing or speach not ment to be understood |
| metaphor | figure of speech where one thing is spoken of as though it was somthing else |
| simile | comparing two things using like or as |
| synecdoche | a part of somthing used as a whole |
| hyperbole | exageration |
| personification | giving human characteristics to a non human thing |
| epic simile | long narrative about a hero or a god |
| syntax | an arrangement of words in gramatical construction |
| rhetorical stratagies | Persuasive words, Logical fallacies and Intent signals |
| symbolism | lierary movement of the 19th century |
| plot | sequence of events |
| main idea | whta the story is about |
| poetry | the art of rhythmical composition |
| haiku | 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables |
| free verse | a poem with no gramatical form |
| epic | poem about a hero |
| narrative poem | a poem that tells a story |
| allitteration | the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group |
| end rhyme | rhyme of the terminal syllables of lines of poetry |
| internal rhyme | a rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse. |
| terza rima | an Italian form of iambic verse consisting of eleven-syllable lines arranged in tercets |
| consonance | correspondence of sounds |
| assonance | resemblance of sounds |
| prose | the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure |
| fiction | the class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration, esp. in prose form |
| novel | a fictitious prose narrative of considerable length and complexity |
| essay | a short literary composition on a particular theme or subject, usually in prose and generally analytic, speculative, or interpretative. |
| editorial | artical expressing opion |
| biography | a written account of another person's life |
| autobiography | a history of a person's life written or told by that person |
| drama | a composition in prose or verse presenting in dialogue or pantomime a story involving conflict or contrast of character |
| charactor | the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing |
| Deus Ex Machina | god out of machine |
| non fiction | the branch of literature comprising works of narrative prose dealing with or offering opinions or conjectures upon facts and reality, including biography, history, and the essay |
| tone | the way a person says something; pitch, strength, quality |
| Short Story | prose fiction usually under 10,000 words |
| irony | This means the opposite of what is said |
| Chronological | sequence of events in a distinct order |
| In Media Res | in the midst of things |
| Flashback | an event or scene is inserted into the narrative |
| epistolary narrative | a novel written as a series of documents or letter |
| frame narrative | a secondary story inserted into the main story |
| myth | story that explains how something occurs or happens |
| understatement | statement that is less strongly supported than by using actual facts; usually is of weak terms |
| paradox | an opinion or statement that seems to contradict what the person says |
| classical tragedy | one of love and paradox |
| tragic hero | character who has a error of judgement or fatal flaw |
| aside | words spoken as to not be heard by others |
| dialogue | conversation between two or more people |
| idiom | meaning that is not predictable from the usual meaning |
| cognate | descended from the same language |
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