| Term | Definition |
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| Fable | is a brief story or poem, usually with animal characteristics, that teaches lesson, or moral |
| Fantasy | highly imaginative that contains elements not found in the real life. include stories that involve supernatural elements |
| Fiction | prose writing that tells about imaginary characters and events |
| Essay | short nonfiction work about a particular subject/ informal essay, historical essay, expository essay, narrative essay, informational essay, and persuasive essay |
| Exposition | introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation |
| Expository Writing | writing that explains or informs |
| Extended Metaphor | several connected comparisons |
| Connotation | the connotation of a word is the set of ideas associated with meaning of a word |
| Denotation | a word is its dictionary meaning of the word |
| Conflict | a struggle between opposing forces |
| External Conflict | man against man, man against nature, man against society |
| Internal Conflict | man against himself |
| Concrete Poem | is one with a shape that suggests its subject |
| Comedy | is a literary work, especially a play, which is light, often humorous or satirical, and ends happily |
| Climax | also called the turning point, is the hight point in the action of the plot |
| Antagonist | PROTAGONIST |
| Development/Plot | sequence of cause and effect events |
| Dialect | the form of a language spoken by people in a particular region or group |
| Dialogue | is a conversation between characters |
| Drama | is a story written to performed by actors |
| Figurative Language | language not meant to be taken literally |
| Figure Of Speech | metaphor, personification, and simile |
| Flashback | writing technique that interups the story to tell about things in the past |
| Folk Tale | it is a story passed down from person to person by word of mouth |
| Foot | The weak and the strong stresses are then divied by vertical lines into groups called feet |
| Imagery | mental pictures |
| Foreshadowing | a writer's technique that gives you clues about what might happen in the future |
| Free Verse | is poetry not written in a regular, rhythmical pattern, or meter |
| Genre | division or type of literature : Poetry, Prose, and Drama |
| Haiku | a japenese poem, three lines, five, seven, five syllables |
| Point of View | perspective |
| First - Person (Point of View) | point of view is told by a character who uses the first person pronoun "I." |
| Omniscient Third - Person (Point of View) | point of view, the narrator knows and tells about what each character feels and thinks |
| Limited Third - Person (Point of View) | point of view, the narrator relates the inner thoughts and feeling of only one character, and everything is viewed from this character's perspective |
| Problem | conflict |
| Prose | ordinary form of written language |
| Protagonist | main character |
| Refrain | regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or a song |
| Poetry | one of the three major types of literature, musical, imagery, figurative language, and special devices of sound such as rhyme |
| Hero/Heroine | a character whose actions are inspiring, or noble |
| Historical Fiction | real events, places, or people are incorporated into a fictional or imaginative story |
| Images | words or phrases that appeal to the five senses |
| Irony | the literary techniques that uses surprising, interesting, or amusing contradictions |
| Journal | a periodic, account of events and the writer's thoughts and feelings about those events |
| Legend | is a wildly told story about the past which discusses every culture |
| Letters | written communication from one person to another |
| Limerick | a humorous, rhyming, five - line poem with a specific meter and rhyme scheme |
| Lyric Poem | is a highly musical that expresses the obsevations and feelings of a single speaker |
| Character | a person or an animal that takes part in the action of a literary work |
| Main or Major Character | the most important character in a story, poem, or play |
| Minor Character | is one who takes part in the action but is not the focous of attention |
| Flat Character | is one-sided and often stereotypical |
| Round Charcter | is fully developed and exhibits many traits---often both faults and virtues |
| Dynamic Character | is one who changes or grows during the course of the work |
| Static Charactera | is one who does not change |
| Repetition | is the use, more than once, of any element of language/ sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence/ is used in both prose and poetry |
| Resolution | outcome of the conflict |
| Rhyme | the repetition of sounds at the ends of words |
| Rhyme Scheme | a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem |
| Rhythm | is the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| Scene | is a section of uninterrupted action in the act of drama |
| Science Fiction | elements of fiction, fantasy, and scientific fact. Many stories are set in the future |
| Sensory Language | writing or speech that appeals to the five senses |
| Setting | time and place of the story |
| simile | a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as') |
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