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| Question | Answer |
| 1st person point of view | Narration when the events are told by a character in the story |
| 3rd person point of view | Narration when the events are told by someone outside the story |
| Alliteration | The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words |
| Allusion | A reference to a well-known person, place or work of art to make a comparison |
| Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds in lines of poetry |
| Ballad | A poem set to music; it tells a story and often has dialogue |
| Biography | A work of nonfiction in which a writer tells the story of another person's life |
| Character Trait | The qualities of a character. What a character is like |
| Climax | The highest point of a story. Often the turning point |
| Cliche | An expression that is so overused it is boring and commonplace |
| Dynamic Character | A character who changes over the course of the story |
| Epic | A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero |
| Fable | A short story, usually with animal characters, that teaches a lesson or moral |
| Fiction | Writing that tells about imaginary characters or imaginary events |
| Flashback | A section of a story that interrupts the sequence of events in order to tell an earlier event |
| Foreshadowing | Hints or clues that give a reader an idea of what may happen next |
| Free-verse | Poetry that has irregular lines and may not rhyme |
| Generalization | A vague statement that is made to cover many cases |
| Haiku | Japanese nature poem, three lines in length; 17 syllables, 5-7-5 |
| Hyperbole | Extreme exaggeration |
| Idiom | A word or phrase which means something different from what it literally says. Usually a metaphor |
| Imagery | Words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the 5 senses. Creates a vivid description for the reader |
| Inference | A conclusion drawn by the reader, based on available information |
| Irony | A situation where the opposite of what is expected happens |
| Limerick | A humorous 5 line poem with a rhyme scheme of AABBA |
| Lyric | Poetry that expresses thoughts and feelings |
| Metaphor | Something is described as if it were something else. A comparison without using "like" or "as" |
| Mood | The overall feeling or atmosphere the author creates through the use of imagery and figurative language |
| Moral | A lesson taught by a story |
| Motivation | The reason for a character's thoughts, feelings, actions, or speech. |
| Narrator | The speaker or character who is telling a story |
| Nonfiction | Writing that tells about real people, places, objects, or events. |
| Oxymoron | Two words together with opposite meanings create a unique description |
| Onomatopoeia | Words that imitate sounds |
| Parable | A short tale that illustrates a universal truth |
| Personification | A figure of speech in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics |
| Plot | The sequence of events as a story is told |
| Point of View | The perspective from which a story is told |
| Poetry | A genre of literature that expresses ideas and feelings in compact, imaginative, musical words |
| Prose | Written and spoken language that is not poetry: sentences, paragraphs, stories, chapters, etc. |
| Pun | A humorous play on words. |
| Repetition | The repeated use of words or phrases to emphasize a point |
| Resolution | The events that occur in the falling action of a story's plot |
| Rhyme Scheme | The pattern in which the last words in lines of poetry rhyme |
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