| Term | Definition |
|---|
| simile | compares two things using like or as |
| metaphor | compares two things directly using a form of the verb is |
| personification | act of giving human qualities to an object or abstract idea |
| hyperbole | exaggeration or overstatement |
| allusion | reference to familiar people, things, places, or events |
| imagery | art of using words to create an experience otherwise perceived through the senses of sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste |
| plot | set of events that make up a story |
| conflict | main problem or struggle in a story |
| rising action | events after the conflict is revealed but before the conflict must be faced |
| climax | usually the most exiting part of the story |
| resolution | way in a conflict is solved in a story |
| character | people or animals in a story |
| traits | qualities of characters |
| setting | time and place of a piece of writing |
| theme | main lesson in a passage |
| point of view | perspective of a story |
| first person | story told from"I" perspective |
| second person | story told from the "you" perspective |
| third person | the story told from a perspective from some one outside of the story |
| rhyme scheme | pattern of rhyming words in a poem |
| balled | a poem that tells a story in rhythmic verse |
| couplet | to lines in verse that are next to each other |
| lyric | relitivly short poem with one speaker who expresses thought and feeling |
| sonnet | rhymed lyric poem that has 14 lines |
| elegy | songs that express the passing of someone |
| ode | a lyric poem that praises an impotent person, place, or thing |
| dialogue | the words spoken by actors in poems |
| stage directions | tell actors what to do before, during, or after |
| comedy | a play that is usually made to make people laugh |
| tragedy | a story that is serious and usually ends with an unhappy ending |
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