| Term | Definition |
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| Literature | Writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. |
| Genre | A class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like: the genre of epic poetry |
| Culture | The quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc. |
| Diction | Style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words |
| Theme | A subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition |
| Imagery | The formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively |
| Point of view | A specified or stated manner of consideration or appraisal; standpoint |
| Figurative language | Speech or writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning, speech or writing employing figures of speech |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance |
| Simile | A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared |
| Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole, the whole for a part,the specific for the general, the specific for the general, or the material for the thing made from it |
| Hyperbole | Obvious and intentional exaggeration. |
| Personification | The attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions |
| epic simile | A simile developed over several lines of verse, esp. one used in an epic poem. |
| Syntax | The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences |
| symbolism | the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character |
| plot | a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, esp. a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose |
| poetry | the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts |
| prose | the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse. |
| Fiction | Real |
| Non fction | not real |
| Short story | A short piece of prose fiction, having few characters and aiming at unity of effect |
| Novel | a fictitious prose narrative of considerable length and complexity, portraying characters and usually presenting a sequential organization of action and scenes. |
| Essay | a short literary composition on a particular theme or subject, usually in prose and generally analytic, speculative, or interpretative. |
| editorial | an article in a newspaper or other periodical presenting the opinion of the publisher, editor, or editors. |
| haiku | is a form of Japanese poetry. |
| free Verse | verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern. |
| Epic | noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style |
| Narrative poem | a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious |
| Alleration | 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, the middle line of each tercet rhyming with the first and last lines of the following tercet |
| Consonance | accord or agreement. |
| assonance | resemblance of sounds |
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