| Term | Definition |
|---|
| pathetic fallacy | A form of personification giving human traits to nature |
| pathos | suffering or passion |
| personification | elevates an animal, object, or idea to the level of human |
| persuasion | meant to sway readers' feelings, beliefs, or actions |
| picaresque novel | the sequence of events that happen in a story |
| poetic justice | a character "getting what he deserves" in the end |
| poetic license | author allowed to break conventional rules of grammar, spelling, etc in order to rhyme, meter etc |
| poetry | type of literature in which ideas and feelings are expressed in compact, imaginative, and often musical language |
| point of view | the vantage point from which the story is being told |
| primary source | a firsthand account of an event |
| propaganda | one-sided persuation, materials spread abroad by advocates of a doctrine |
| prose | an ordinary form of spoken and written language |
| protagonist | the main character or hero |
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