| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Alliteration | The repetition of consonat sounds in neighboring words |
| Allusion | An implied or indirect reference in literature to a familiar person place or event |
| Author's Purpose | The author's intent either to inform, teach entertain, persuade, or convince their audience to do or not do something |
| Bias | A judgment based on a personal point of view |
| Characterization | The method an author uses to reveal characters and their personalities |
| Conflict | The struggle between opposing forces in literature |
| Dialogue | conversations between people in a literary work |
| Figurative language | Language that cannot be taking literally since it was written to create a special feeling or effect |
| First Person Point of View | A method of storyteeling that relates events as they are perceived by a single character |
| Flashback | A device used in literature to present action that occurred before the beginning of the story |
| Foreshadowing | A device used to creat hints of events to come |
| Free Verse | Poetry that lacks regular meter and rhyme |
| Hyperbole | exaggeration or overstatement |
| Idiom | An expression that cannot be understood if taken literally |
| Imagery | Words that appeal to the senses |
| Irony | The use of words or phrases to mean the exact opposite of its literal or usual meaning |
| Metaphor | A comparison between two unlike things |
| Mood | The prevailing emotions of a work |
| Onomatopoeia | The use of words whose sounds express their meaing or sense |
| Personification | Giving human qualities to non humans things |
| Plot | the sequence in which the author arranges the events of the story. The structure often uncldes rising actions, climax, falling actions and resolution |
| Satire | A literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness |
| Setting | The time and place in which a story unfolds |
| Symbol | A device in literature where an object represents an idea |
| Simile | A comparision of two unlike things using words such as like or as |
| Theme | The major idea that represents an important message or insight of the author |
| Third person Point of View | A perspective in literature that presents the events of the story from outside any single character's perspective |
| Third person limited | The narrator has limited knowlege about characters |
| Thrid Person Omniscient | all knowing narrator |
| Tome | The author's attitude towards the subject |
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