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Alliteration repition of intial consonant sounds.
Analogy a comparison between two or more things that sre similar in some ways but different in others.
Anecdote brief story about interesting, amusing, or strange events.
Atmosphere the feeling created in the reader by a literary work .
Autobiography a story about the writer's own life told by the writer.
Biography A form of nonfiction in which a writer tells the life of another person.
Character a person or an animal that takes part in a literary work.
Characterization the act of creating and developing a character.
Climax the high point in the action of the plot.
Comedy a literary work, especially a play, which is light, often humorous, and ends happily.
Concrete poem a poem in the shape of its subject.
Conflict a struggle between opposing forces.
Connotation the set of ideas associated with its explicit meaning.
Dennotation the dictionary meaning of a word.
Description a portrait in words, of a person, place , or object.
Development the sequence of cause and effect events.
Dialect a form of language spoken by a specific region.
Dialogue a conversation between characters.
Drama a story written to be performed by actors.
Dynamic character one who changes or grows during the course of action.
Essay a short nonfiction about a particular subject, six types of essays, informal, historical, expository, narrative, informational and persuasive.
Exposition the introduction, this introduces the characters, setting and basic situation.
Expository writing writing that explains or informs.
Extended metaphor same as a metaphor, but several connected comparisons are made.
External conflict man against man, man against nature and man against society.
a character whose actions are inspiring or noble. Hero/ Heroine
real people, places and events that are incorporated into made-up things. Historical fiction
Images words or phrases that appeal to the five senses.
Imagery mental pictures
Internal conflict man against himself.
Irony literary technique that involves interesting, amusing and surprising contradictions.
Legend widely told story about the past that has no foundation if true or not.
Letters written communication from one person to another.
Limerick humorous, rhyming, five-lined poem, with specific meter and rhyme scheme.
Lyric poem highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker.
Main Character most important character in a story.
reports, explanations, opinions and descriptions, written for TV, radio, newspapers and magazines. Media Accounts
Metaphor figure of speech in which something is described as if it were something else.
Meter it's a rhythimical pattern.
Minor character one who takes part in the action, but isn't the focus of attention.
Mood the feeling created in the reader by the literary work.
Moral a lesson taught by a literary work.
Motive reason that explains, or partially explains a characters thoughts, actions, feelings and speech.
Myth a made-up tale that explains the actions of gods or heroes or the orgins of elements of nature.
Narration writing that tells a story.
Narrative it's a story.
Narrative Poem a story told in verse.
Narrator a speaker who tells a story.
Nonfiction prose writing that presents and explains ideas or that tells about real people, places, objects, or events.
Novel long work of fiction.
Novella longer than a short story, shorter than a novel.
Onomatopoeia use of words that imitate sounds.
Oral Tradition the passing of songs, stories and poems from generation to generation.
Personification figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics.
Perspective point of view.
Persuasion writing or speech that attempts to convince the reader to adopt to a paticular opinion or course of action.
Playwright a person who writes plays. William shakespeare is the most famous playwright in english literature.
Plot the sequence of cause and effect events.
Poetry three major types of literature, uses a special device such as rhyme, three types are lyric, concrete and narrative.
Point Of View the perspective of which a story is told, kinds are first person, omniscient third person and limited third person.
Problem conflict
Prose ordinary form of written language.
the main character in a literary work. Protaginist
Refrain regularly repeated of lines in a poem or song.
Reptition the use more than once of any element of language, like a sound.
Resolution the outcome of the conflict in the plot.
Rhyme the repetition of sounds at the ends of words.
Rhyme Scheme regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem.
Rhythm the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in spoken or written language.
Round character a fully developed character.
Scene a section of uninterrupted action in the act of a drama.
Science fiction combines elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact that is usually set in the future
Sensory Language Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the 5 senses
Setting It is the time and place of the action
Static Character It is a character who doesn't change
Surprise Ending the conclusion that is unexpected
Suspense A feeling of anxious uncertainty about the outcome of events in a literary work
Symbol It is anything that stands for or represents something else.
Turning Point Climax
brief story or poem usually with animal characters that teaches a lesson or moral. Fable
Fantasy highly imaginative writing that contains elements not found in real life.
Fiction prose writing that tells about imaginary characters and events.
Figurative language writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally.
Figure of speech many types of figurative language like, simile, metaphor and personification.
Flashback a writers technique that gives clues about the past.
Flat Character one-sided, often stereotypical.
Folk Tale a story compossed orally and then passed person to person by word of mouth.
Foot weak and strong stresses divided by vertical lines .
Foreshadowing the writer gives clues about what is going to happen in the future.
Free Verse poetry not written in regular meter.
Genre a division or type of literature. Three kinds are Poetry, Prose and Drama
Haiku three lined Japanese poem, 5 7 5 syllables.

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moneymaker : Changed Hero/ Heroine → a character whose actions are inspiring, or noble. to a character whose actions are inspiring or noble. → Hero/ Heroine
moneymaker : Changed Protaginist → main character in a literary work. to the main character in a literary work. → Protaginist
moneymaker : Changed Historical fiction → real people, places and events that are incorporated into made-up people. to real people, places and events that are incorporated into made-up things. → Historical fiction
moneymaker : Changed Staging → Includes the setting, the lighting , the costumes, special effects, music, dance, and so on that go into putting on a stage performance of a drama. to Includes the setting, the lighting , the costumes, special effects, music, dance, and other things that go into putting on a stage performance of a drama. → Staging
moneymaker : Changed Media Accounts → reports, explanations opinions and descriptions, written for TV, radio, newspapers and magazines. to reports, explanations, opinions and descriptions, written for TV, radio, newspapers and magazines. → Media Accounts
moneymaker : Changed Fable → brief story or poem usually with animal characters theat teaches a lesson or moral. to brief story or poem usually with animal characters that teaches a lesson or moral. → Fable
moneymaker : Changed Tragedy → It is a work of literature , especially a play that results in a catastrophe for the mail character. to It is a work of literature , especially a play that results in a catastrophe for the male character. → Tragedy
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  1. Alliteration → repition of intial consonant sounds. - 2 misses
  2. Dynamic character → one who changes or grows during the course of action. - 2 misses
  3. Oral Tradition → the passing of songs, stories and poems from generation to generation. - 2 misses
  4. Refrain → regularly repeated of lines in a poem or song. - 2 misses
  5. Scene → a section of uninterrupted action in the act of a drama. - 2 misses
  6. Biography → A form of nonfiction in which a writer tells the life of another person. - 1 miss
  7. Comedy → a literary work, especially a play, which is light, often humorous, and ends happily. - 1 miss