| Term | Definition |
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| Alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds, usually the beginning of words or syllables |
| Analogy | a comparison between two things based on one or more elements that they share |
| Anecdote | a brief entertaning story based on a single interesting or humorous incident or event |
| Antagonist | a person or force that oposes the protagonist or central character in a story or drama |
| Anthropomorphism | representing animals as if they had human emotions and intelligence |
| aside | In a play, a comment made by a character that is heard by the audience but not by the other characters on stage |
| assonance | The reptition of vowel sounds, especially in a line of poetry |
| Author's purpose | The intention of the writer, |
| Autobiography | The story of a person's life written by that person |
| ballad | a short musical narrative song or poem |
| Biography | The accounht of a person's life written by someone other than the subject |
| character | a person in a literary work |
| round character | characters that show varied and sometimes contradictory traits are called round |
| flat character | A character that displays only one personality trait |
| stereotype | a flat character of a familiar often repeated type |
| dynamic character | characters that change during the story |
| Static | Characters that remain primarily the same during the story |
| Characterization | methods a writer usese to develop the personality of the character |
| direction characterization | the narrator makes direct statements about a character's personality |
| indirecdtion characterization | the writer revealsa character's personaliy through the character's words and deeds |
| climax | the point of greatest emotional intensity, interest, or suspense in a narrative. usually the climax comes at the turning point in a story or drama |
| comedy | a type of drama that is humorous and has a happy ending |
| conflict | the central struggle between opposing forces in a story or drama |
| external conflict | exists when characters struggle againstsome outsdie force, such as nature, society, fate, or anther person |
| Internal conflict | exists within the mind of a character who is torn between opposing feelings or goals |
| consonance | a pleasing combination of sounds, especially in poetry |
| description | writing that seeks to convey the impression of a setting, a person, an animal, or object or an event by appealing to the senses |
| details | Particular features of things used to make description more accurate |
| dialogue | conversation between the characters in a literary work |
| drama | a story intended to be perfomred by actors on a stage or before movies or TVE camera. Most dramas before the modern period can be divided into two basic types: tragedy and comedy. |
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