| Term | Definition |
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| point of view | is the perspective, or vantage point, from which a story is told. |
| mood | is the feeling created by a literary work or passage. |
| tone | a literary works is the writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject. |
| symbol | is any thing that stands for or represents something else. |
| dialect | is a form of a language spoken by people in a particular region or group. |
| dialogue | is a conversation between characters. |
| allusion | is a reference to a well-known person. |
| connotation | a word is the set of ideas associated with it in addition to it's explicit meaning. |
| denotation | a word is its dictionary meaning, independent of others associations that the word made have. |
| details | are the facts revealed by the aurther or speakers that support the attitude or tone in a piece of poetry or prose. |
| pun | is a play or words, or a joke based on words with several meanings or words that sound alike bbut have different meanings. |
| style | is the writer's characteristic manner of employing language. |
| simile | is a comparison of two different things or ideas through the use of the words ''like'' or |
| setting | is the time and place in which events in a short story,novel,play,or narritive poem take place. |
| rhythm | is the pattern of beats created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables, particulary in poetry. |
| understatement | is the opposite of hyperbole. |
| theme | is the central message of a literary work. |
| symbol | is any object, person, place, or action that has both a meaning in itself and that stands for something larger than itself |
| suspense | is the quality of a short story, novel, play or narrative poem that makes the reader or audience uncertain or tense about the outcome of event. |
| archetype | ia a descriptive detail, plot pattern, character type,or theme that recurs in many different cultures. |
| flat | the character is one-dimensional. |
| static | the character does not change internally over the course of thee story. |
| round | the character is fully developed |
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