alliteration

the repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds in words that are close together.

allusion

a reference to a statement a person, a place, or an event from literation, history, religion, mythology, politics, or parts of science.

autobiography

the story of a person's life, written or told by that person.

biography

the story of a real person's life, written or told by another person.

character

a person or an animal in a story, play, or other literary work.

conflict - { external and internal}

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.

connotation

the feelings and associations that have come to be attached to a word denotation dictionary definitions.

descirption

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.

dialect

a way of speaking characteristic of a particular region or a particular group of people.

dialogue

conversation between two or more characters.

fable

a very brier story in prose or verse that teaches a moral a practical lesson about how to succeed in life.

fantasy

imaginative writing that carries the reader into a invented world where the laws of nature as we know them do not operate.

figure of speech

a word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of something else and is not literally true.

flash back

a scene that breaks the normal time order of the plot to show a past event.

folk tale

a story with no known author, briginally 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 appears to the senses sight,hearing,touch,taste, smell.

irony

a contrast between what is expected and what really happens.

legend

a story, usually bast 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 literure.

nonfiction

prose writing that deals with real people, events, and places without changing any facts.

onomatopoeia

the use of a word whose sounds imitates or suggests its meaning.