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Fable |
is a brief story or poem, usually with animal characteristics, that teaches lesson, or moral |
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Fantasy |
highly imaginative that contains elements not found in the real life. include stories that involve supernatural elements |
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Fiction |
prose writing that tells about imaginary characters and events |
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Essay |
short nonfiction work about a particular subject/ informal essay, historical essay, expository essay, narrative essay, informational essay, and persuasive essay |
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Exposition |
introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation |
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Expository Writing |
writing that explains or informs |
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Extended Metaphor |
several connected comparisons |
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Connotation |
the connotation of a word is the set of ideas associated with meaning of a word |
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Denotation |
a word is its dictionary meaning of the word |
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Conflict |
a struggle between opposing forces |
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External Conflict |
man against man, man against nature, man against society |
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Internal Conflict |
man against himself |
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Concrete Poem |
is one with a shape that suggests its subject |
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Comedy |
is a literary work, especially a play, which is light, often humorous or satirical, and ends happily |
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Climax |
also called the turning point, is the hight point in the action of the plot |
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Antagonist |
PROTAGONIST |
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Development/Plot |
sequence of cause and effect events |
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Dialect |
the form of a language spoken by people in a particular region or group |
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Dialogue |
is a conversation between characters |
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Drama |
is a story written to performed by actors |
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Figurative Language |
language not meant to be taken literally |
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Figure Of Speech |
metaphor, personification, and simile |
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Flashback |
writing technique that interups the story to tell about things in the past |
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Folk Tale |
it is a story passed down from person to person by word of mouth |
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Foot |
The weak and the strong stresses are then divied by vertical lines into groups called feet |
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Imagery |
mental pictures |
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Foreshadowing |
a writer's technique that gives you clues about what might happen in the future |
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Free Verse |
is poetry not written in a regular, rhythmical pattern, or meter |
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Genre |
division or type of literature : Poetry, Prose, and Drama |
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Haiku |
a japenese poem, three lines, five, seven, five syllables |
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Point of View |
perspective |
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First - Person (Point of View) |
point of view is told by a character who uses the first person pronoun "I." |
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Omniscient Third - Person (Point of View) |
point of view, the narrator knows and tells about what each character feels and thinks |
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Limited Third - Person (Point of View) |
point of view, the narrator relates the inner thoughts and feeling of only one character, and everything is viewed from this character's perspective |
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Problem |
conflict |
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Prose |
ordinary form of written language |
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Protagonist |
main character |
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Refrain |
regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or a song |
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Poetry |
one of the three major types of literature, musical, imagery, figurative language, and special devices of sound such as rhyme |
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Hero/Heroine |
a character whose actions are inspiring, or noble |
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Historical Fiction |
real events, places, or people are incorporated into a fictional or imaginative story |
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Images |
words or phrases that appeal to the five senses |
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Irony |
the literary techniques that uses surprising, interesting, or amusing contradictions |
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Journal |
a periodic, account of events and the writer's thoughts and feelings about those events |
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Legend |
is a wildly told story about the past which discusses every culture |
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Letters |
written communication from one person to another |
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Limerick |
a humorous, rhyming, five - line poem with a specific meter and rhyme scheme |
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Lyric Poem |
is a highly musical that expresses the obsevations and feelings of a single speaker |
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Character |
a person or an animal that takes part in the action of a literary work |
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Main or Major Character |
the most important character in a story, poem, or play |
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Minor Character |
is one who takes part in the action but is not the focous of attention |
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Flat Character |
is one-sided and often stereotypical |
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Round Charcter |
is fully developed and exhibits many traits---often both faults and virtues |
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Dynamic Character |
is one who changes or grows during the course of the work |
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Static Charactera |
is one who does not change |
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Repetition |
is the use, more than once, of any element of language/ sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence/ is used in both prose and poetry |
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Resolution |
outcome of the conflict |
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Rhyme |
the repetition of sounds at the ends of words |
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Rhyme Scheme |
a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem |
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Rhythm |
is the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
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Scene |
is a section of uninterrupted action in the act of drama |
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Science Fiction |
elements of fiction, fantasy, and scientific fact. Many stories are set in the future |
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Sensory Language |
writing or speech that appeals to the five senses |
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Setting |
time and place of the story |
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simile |
a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as') |
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