front 1 Alliteration | back 1 the repetion of the same or very similar constant sounds in words that are close together |
front 2 allusion | back 2 a refrence to a statement a person a place or an even from literature hisory reliegion mythology polotics sports or science |
front 3 autobigraphy | back 3 the story of a persons life written or rolf by that person |
front 4 biography | back 4 the story if a real persons 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 | back 6 a struggle or class between opposing character or forces |
front 7 connotation | back 7 the feelings and associations that have come to be attached to a word |
front 8 description | back 8 the kind of writing that creates a clear image of something usually by using details that appeal to one or more of the senses |
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 brief story in prose or verse that teaches a moral or a real life practical lesson about how to succeed in life |
front 12 fantasy | back 12 imaginative writing that carries the reader into an 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 onething in terms of something else and is not literally true |
front 14 flashback | 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 originallt passed on from one generation to another by word of mouth |
front 16 foreshadowing | back 16 the us 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 appeals to the senses sight hearing touch taste and smell |
front 19 irony | back 19 a contrast between what is expected and what really happens |
front 20 legen | back 20 a story usuallt based on some historical fact that has been handed down from on generation to the next |
front 21 limerick | back 21 a humorous five line verse that has meter and ryhme scheme AABBA |
front 22 main idea | back 22 the most important idea expresed in a peice of writing |
front 23 metaphor | back 23 a comparision between two unlike things in which one thing becomes another thing |
front 24 mood | back 24 the overall emotiuon created by a work of literature |
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 sound imitates of suggest its meaning |
front 27 personificatoin | back 27 a special kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human |
front 28 plot | back 28 the series of related events that make up a story |
front 29 point of view | back 29 the vantage point from which a story is told |
front 30 ryhme | back 30 the repetiotion of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them |
front 31 rhythm | back 31 a musical quality produced by he repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of other sound patterns |
front 32 setting | back 32 the time and place of a story a poem or a play |
front 33 simile | back 33 a comparistion between two unlinke things using a word such as like as than or resembles |
front 34 speaker | back 34 the voice talking to us in a poem1 |
front 35 stanza | back 35 in a poem a group of lines that form a unit |
front 36 symbol | back 36 a person a place a thing or an event that has its own meaning and stands for something beyond itself |
front 37 tall tale | back 37 that gets taller and taller more and more far fetched the more it is toldd and retoldan exaggerated anciful story |
front 38 theme | back 38 an idea about life revealed in a work of literature |
front 39 tone | back 39 the attitude a writer takes toward an audience a subject or a character |