| Term | Definition |
|---|
| rhyme | words sound the same |
| rhyme scheme | plotting out poet's plan of words at the end of lines; may rhyme |
| rising action | series of conflicts leading to climax |
| root word | base of a word without prefixes or suffixes |
| science fiction | genre dealing with space travel, aliens, or the apocolypse |
| second person | "you" never used as a point of view of the story |
| semantic webs | way to plan writing and show associated thoughts |
| sensory detail | sight, sound, taste, touch, smell |
| sequence of events | story action put in real time order |
| setting | time and place of a story, novel, poem |
| short story | brief narrative having limited character, action, scope |
| simile | compares two unlike things using like or as |
| solution | the outcome of a problem or story |
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