front 1 aliteration | back 1 the repetition of the same or very similar constant 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 literature , history , religion , mythology , polities , sports , or 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 story , play , or other literary work. |
front 6 conflict (external and internal) | back 6 a struggle of clash between opposing characters 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: 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 dialouge | back 10 conversation between two or more characters. |
front 11 fable | back 11 a very brief story in prose. |
front 12 fantasy | back 12 imaginative writing that carried the read into an invented world where the laws of nature as we know them do operate. |
front 13 figure or speech | back 13 a word or phrase that describes one thing 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 , originally 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 occurs 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 legend | back 20 a story usually based on some historical facts , 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 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 or suggests its meaning. |
front 27 personification | 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 prose | back 30 any writing that is not poetry. |
front 31 rhyme | back 31 the repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them. |
front 32 rhythm | back 32 a musical quality produced by the repetition of stresses and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of other sound patterns. |
front 33 setting | back 33 the time and place of a story , a poem , or a play. |
front 34 simile | back 34 a comparison between two two unlike things using a word such as like , as , than , or resembles. |
front 35 speaker | back 35 the voice talking to us in a poem. |
front 36 stanza | back 36 in a poem , a group of lines that form a unit. |
front 37 symbol | back 37 a persona place , a thing , or an event that has its own meaning and stands for something beyond itself. |
front 38 tall tale | back 38 an exaggerated , fanciful story that gets "taller and taller" , more and more far-fetched , the more it is told retold. |
front 39 theme | back 39 an idea about life revealed in a work in work of literature. |
front 40 tone | back 40 the attitude a writer takes toward an audience , a subject , or a character. |