Alititeration

The reptition of the same or very similar constant sounds in words that are close together

Alusion

A reference to a statement a person a place or an event from literature history religion mythology politics sports or science

autobiography

the story of a persons life written or told by that person

biography

the story of a real persons life written or told by another person

character

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

conflict

internal

external

a struggle of clash between opposing characters

connotation

denotation

the feelings and associations that have to come to be attached to a word

dictionary definitons

description

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

dialect

a way of speaking characteristic of a particular group of people

dialogue

conversation between two or more characters

fable

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

fantasy

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

figure of speach

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

flashback

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

folk tale

a story with no known author originally 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 appeals to the senses sight,hearing,touching,taste, and smell

irony

a contrast between what is expected and what really happens

legend

a story usually based 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 literature

non fiction

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

onomatopoeia

the use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning

personification

a special kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human

plot

the series of realeted events that make up a story

point of view

the vantage point from which a story is tolf

prose

any writing that is not poetry

rhyme

the repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them

rhythm

a musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and un stressed syllables or by the repetition of other sound pattens

setting

the time and place of a story a poem or a play

simile

a comparison between two unlike things using a word such as like as than or resembles

speaker

the voice talking to us in a poem

stanza

in a poem a group of lines that form a unit

symbol

a person place a thing or an event that has its own meaning and stands for something beyond itself

tall tale

an exaggerated fanciful story that gets taller and taller more and more far fecthed the more it is told and retold

theme

an idea about life revealed in a work of literature

tone

the attitude a writer takes toward an audience a subject or a character