| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Climax | The most entertaining part of the story. |
| Didactic | Something that teaches a moral ethical or religious lesson. |
| Dramatic Monologue | A type of lyric poem in which a character (the speaker) addresses a distinct but silent audience. |
| Epic | a long narrative poem. |
| Exposition | a narrative device, often used at the beginning of a work that provides necessary background info. |
| Hyperbole | a conscious exaggeration, |
| Personification | a simile or metaphor that assigns human traits to inanimate objects or abstractions. |
| Foreshadowing | introduction early in a story of verbal and dramatic hints that suggest what is to come later. |
| Mood | what the reader feels. |
| Theme/Motif | central meaning or dominant idea in a literary work. |
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