| Term | Definition |
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| setting | the time and place in which the events of a work of literature take place. |
| moral | the lesson or teaching of a work. |
| irony | the difference between what happens and whats expected to happen. |
| fiction | prose writing that is made up rather than true. |
| climax | the most exciting part of a story. |
| theme | the underlying meaning of a work. |
| allusion | a brief reference of a person, event, place, work of art, etc. |
| nonfiction | prose writing that deals with real people, events, things, and places without changing any facts. |
| drama | a literary that is meant to be performed by actors. |
| tragedy | dramatic writing where the main character suffers and struggles. |
| myth | an imaginitive work of literature that involves gods or super natural forces. |
| short story | a work of fiction thats shorter than a novel. |
| novella | shorter than a noval but longer than a short story. |
| propaganda | literary work with a political message. |
| folktale | a story woth no known author that orignally was passed on from one generation to another by word of mouth. |
| fable | a brief story that contains a moral. |
| historical fiction | a novel or story set in a real historic era. |
| antihero | main character with bad or undesireable traits. |
| antagonist | the character in conflict with the protagonist. |
| sympathetic character | a character whose situation you understand. |
| dynamic character | a changing character. |
| foreshadowing | a hint about whats about to happen in a story. |
| flat character | a character that you dont know well. |
| static character | a character that stays the same throughout the story. |
| protagonist | the main character. |
| minor character | mentioned less than a flat character. |
| round character | a character you know alot about. |
| tall tale | an exxagerated far fetched story. |
| dialect | a way of speaking. |
| character | person, animal, or thing in a work of literature. |
| internal rhyme | a rhyme within lines. |
| first person narrator | when a story is told by one of the characters. |
| When poetry is written in free verse, it sounds like | ordinary speech. |
| narrative poem | tells a story. |
| prose | any writing that is not poetry. |
| epic | a long narrative poem about a hero. |
| ominiscient narrator | reveals thoughts about characters. |
| imagery | language that appeals to one of our senses. |
| ode | a long lyric poem, rhymed or unrhymed, on a serious subject. |
| elegy | a poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died. |
| lyric poem | expresses the feelings or thoughts of a speaker rather than telling a story. |
| idiom | a commonly used expression that is not literally true. |
| onomatopeia | the use of words who sounds imitate their meanings. |
| Myths most frquently describe | animals that seem human. |
| consonant | the repitition of consonant sounds where the vowels are different. |
| osonant | the repitition of vowel sounds in words that are close together. |
| A story's main charcter is the | most important character. |
| How is a short story different from a novel? | its not as long as a novel. |
| refrain | a repeated sound, word, phrase, line, or group of lines. |
| The conflict of a story refers to | a struggle between two oposing forces. |
| The third person point of view is used in | both fiction and nonfiction. |
| alliteration | the repitition of consonant sounds that are close together. |
| simile | comparison of two unlike things. |
| The plot of a story is | a chain of related events that tells us what will happen in a story. |
| internal conflict | a struggle within a character. |
| Character traits refer to | the qualities that make up the personality of a character. |
| autobiography | a story of a persons life written by that person. |
| What is the resolution of the story? | when all the lose ends are tied up. |
| Context clues help you | determine the meaning of the word. |
| metaphor | an imaginative comparison between two unlike things. |
| personification | when an inanimate object has human characteristics. |
| What is a symbol in a literary work? | a person, place, or thing that stands for something. |
| The role of a narrator is to | tell the story. |
| inference | is an educated guess. |
| The table of contents of a textbook tells you the | topics covered in the book. |
| The plot of a story is the | a series of events in a story. |
| How many lines does a sonnet contain? | 14. |
| The theme of a story can best be described as | an idea or insight about life. |
| What is the climax of the story? | the most exciting moment in the story. |
| In a story the narrator is the person who | tells the story. |
| What elements are typically found in myths? | seens of gods and goddesses interacting with humans. |
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