front 1 Alititeration | back 1 The reptition of the same or very similar constant sounds in words that are close together |
front 2 Alusion | back 2 A reference to a statement a person a place or an event from literature history religion mythology politics sports or science |
front 3 autobiography | back 3 the story of a persons life written or told by that person |
front 4 biography | back 4 the story of 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 internal external | back 6 a struggle of clash between opposing characters |
front 7 connotation denotation | back 7 the feelings and associations that have to come to be attached to a word dictionary definitons |
front 8 description | back 8 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 |
front 9 dialect | back 9 a way of speaking characteristic of 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 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 speach | 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 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,touching,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 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 literature |
front 25 non fiction | 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 realeted events that make up a story |
front 29 point of view | back 29 the vantage point from which a story is tolf |
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 stressed and un stressed syllables or by the repetition of other sound pattens |
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 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 person 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 fecthed the more it is told and retold |
front 39 theme | back 39 an idea about life revealed in a work of literature |
front 40 tone | back 40 the attitude a writer takes toward an audience a subject or a character |