| Term | Definition |
| sensory details | Info, Ideas, thoughts about taste, touch sight and smell |
| conflit | problem between 2 people/ the protaganist with themselves and nature |
| meaningful dialoge | convesation/ important to the plot oof the story |
| literary device | figurative language/ open to interpretation |
| simile | comparing using like or as |
| metaphor | compares without using like or as |
| personification | to give an inanimate obeject a human chartacteristic |
| alliteration | repitition of consants/ beginning sounds |
| Onomatopoeia | words resemble the sounds they make |
| complex character | detailed description in which the readers knows and understands the character |
| structure | tell a story/ present- now / 1st person |
| story | diff. formats/ written for entertainment |
| paragraph | format by indenting/ switch when idea changes |
| inciting incident | cause of everything |
| plot | ups and downs/ conflits |
| climax | most important/ highlight/ closer to the end |
| resolution | things are figured out |
| sequence of events | in order as they happen |
| fiction | not true |
| autobiography | story about yourself |
| hyperbole | an exaggeration for effect |