22 terms

Terms	Definitions
anecdote	short story of an amusing or interesting event
autobiography	Story of a person's life written by that person
Biography	a form of nonfiction in which a writer tells the life story of another person
Genre	a division or type of literature
Gothic	a primitive, medieval, wild or mysterious element in literature
Narrative	a story told in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama
Nonfiction	prose writing that presents and explains ideas about real people, places, objects or events
satire	irony, sarcasm, or caustic wit used to attack human vice or folly, especially in a literary work
Fiction	prose writing that tells about imaginary characters and events
Short Story	brief work of fiction
Novel	a long work of fiction
Climax	the point of highest interest in a literary work
Rising Action	a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest
Denouement	final outcome; final development of the plot of a play or other literary work; the end of a story when everything is explained
Falling Action	events that occur between the climax and the conclusion
Foreshadowing	the use in a literary work of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur
Flashback	interruption in the present action of a plot to show events that happened at an earlier time
Mood	the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
Setting	The time and place of a story
Style	The distinctive way in which a writer uses language
Suspense	Uncertainty or anxiety the reader feels about what is going to happen next in a story
Exposition	background information presented in a literary work

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