| Term | Definition |
|---|
| historical setting | a real time and place from history |
| mood | the feeling or atmosphere of the story (feeling you have when reading a story) |
| first person point of view | the narrator tells the action of the story and uses the pronoun "I" |
| point of view | the perspective from which a story is told |
| third person point of view | the narrator is not a character in the story but tells events from the "outside"; pronouns he, she, they |
| memoir | autobiographical writing in which a writer shares a memory of a significant person or event |
| descriptive details | details that appeal to the senses |
| figurative language | words, phrases, and expressions not meant to be interpreted literally |
| speaker | in a poem is the character or voice that the writer assumes |
| tone | the writer's attitude toward the subject and toward the audience |
| idioms | expressions that are unique to a region or language |
| analogies | comparisons of similarities between unlike things |
| sensory language | describes sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and sensations of touch |
| repetition | the use, more than once, of certain sounds, words, and phrases in a poem |
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