Alititeration
The reptition of the same or very similar constant sounds in words that are close together
Alusion
A reference to a statement a person a place or an event from literature history religion mythology politics sports or science
autobiography
the story of a persons life written or told by that person
biography
the story of a real persons life written or told by another person
character
a person or an animal in a story play or other literary work
conflict
internal
external
a struggle of clash between opposing characters
connotation
denotation
the feelings and associations that have to come to be attached to a word
dictionary definitons
description
the type of writing that creates a clear image of something usally by using details that appeal to one or more of the senses sight hearing smell taste and touch
dialect
a way of speaking characteristic of a particular group of people
dialogue
conversation between two or more characters
fable
a very brief story in prose or verse that teaches a moral or a practical lesson about how to succeed in life
fantasy
imaginative writing that carries the reader into an invented world where the laws of nature as we know them do not operate
figure of speach
a word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of something else and is not literally true
flashback
a scene that breaks the normal time order of the plot to show a past event
folk tale
a story with no known author originally passed on from one generation to another by word of mouth
foreshadowing
the use of clues or hints to suggest events that will occur later in the plot
free verse
poetry that is ¨free¨ of a regular meter and rhyme scheme
imagery
language that appeals to the senses sight,hearing,touching,taste, and smell
irony
a contrast between what is expected and what really happens
legend
a story usually based on some historical fact that has been handed down from one generation to the next
limerick
a humorous five line verse that has regular meter and the rhyme scheme aabba
main idea
the most important idea expressed in a piece of writing
metaphor
a comparison between two unlike things in which one thing becomes another thing
mood
the overall emotion created by a work of literature
non fiction
prose writing that deals with real people events and places without changing any facts
onomatopoeia
the use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning
personification
a special kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human
plot
the series of realeted events that make up a story
point of view
the vantage point from which a story is tolf
prose
any writing that is not poetry
rhyme
the repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them
rhythm
a musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and un stressed syllables or by the repetition of other sound pattens
setting
the time and place of a story a poem or a play
simile
a comparison between two unlike things using a word such as like as than or resembles
speaker
the voice talking to us in a poem
stanza
in a poem a group of lines that form a unit
symbol
a person place a thing or an event that has its own meaning and stands for something beyond itself
tall tale
an exaggerated fanciful story that gets taller and taller more and more far fecthed the more it is told and retold
theme
an idea about life revealed in a work of literature
tone
the attitude a writer takes toward an audience a subject or a character