front 1 alliteration | back 1 the repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds in words that are close together. |
front 2 allusion | back 2 a reference to a statement a person, a place, or an event from literation, history, religion, mythology, politics, or parts of science. |
front 3 autobiography | back 3 the story of a person's life, written or told by that person. |
front 4 biography | back 4 the story of a real person's life, written or told by another person. |
front 5 character | back 5 a person or an animal in a story, play, or other literary work. |
front 6 conflict - { external and internal} | back 6 a struggle of clash between a character or forces. external a struggle between a character and an outside force. internal a struggle between opposing desires or emotions within a person. |
front 7 connotation | back 7 the feelings and associations that have come to be attached to a word denotation dictionary definitions. |
front 8 descirption | back 8 the kind of writing that creates a clear image of something usually by using details that appear to one or more of the senses; sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. |
front 9 dialect | back 9 a way of speaking characteristic of a particular region or a particular group of people. |
front 10 dialogue | back 10 conversation between two or more characters. |
front 11 fable | back 11 a very brier story in prose or verse that teaches a moral a practical lesson about how to succeed in life. |
front 12 fantasy | back 12 imaginative writing that carries the reader into a invented world where the laws of nature as we know them do not operate. |
front 13 figure of speech | back 13 a word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of something else and is not literally true. |
front 14 flash back | back 14 a scene that breaks the normal time order of the plot to show a past event. |
front 15 folk tale | back 15 a story with no known author, briginally passed on from one generation to another by word of mouth. |
front 16 foreshadowing | back 16 the use of clues or hints to suggest events that will occur later in the plot. |
front 17 free verse | back 17 poetry that is " free" of a regular meter and rhyme scheme. |
front 18 imagery | back 18 language that appears to the senses sight,hearing,touch,taste, smell. |
front 19 irony | back 19 a contrast between what is expected and what really happens. |
front 20 legend | back 20 a story, usually bast on some historical fact, that has been handed down from one generation to the next. |
front 21 limerick | back 21 a humorous five line verse that has regular meter and the rhyme scheme aabba. |
front 22 main idea | back 22 the most important idea expressed in a piece of writing. |
front 23 metaphor | back 23 a comparison between two unlike things in which one thing becomes another thing. |
front 24 mood | back 24 the overall emotion created by a work of literure. |
front 25 nonfiction | back 25 prose writing that deals with real people, events, and places without changing any facts. |
front 26 onomatopoeia | back 26 the use of a word whose sounds imitates or suggests its meaning. |