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| 3659535625 | act | a major unit of action in a drama or play | 0 | |
| 3659539568 | allegory | a story in which people, things and actions represent an idea about life | 1 | |
| 3659543446 | alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words | 2 | |
| 3659547753 | allusion | a reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature | 3 | |
| 3659555044 | analogy | a comparison of two or more like objects that suggest if they are alike in certain respects | 4 | |
| 3659562284 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds withing a line of poetry | 5 | |
| 3659566139 | audience | the particular group of readers or viewers that the writer is addressing | 6 | |
| 3659570005 | author | the writer of a book, article or other text | 7 | |
| 3659573456 | autobiography | a form of nonfiction in which a person tells the story of his or her life | 8 | |
| 3659578152 | ballad | is a poem that tells a story and is meant to be sung or recited | 9 | |
| 3659582647 | biography | the story of a person's life that is written by someone else | 10 | |
| 3659586095 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 11 | |
| 3659603270 | caesura | a pause or a sudden break in a line of poetry | 12 | |
| 3659607389 | cause and effect | two events are related as cause and effect when one event brings about or causes the other | 13 | |
| 3659614748 | characterization | all of the techniques that the writers use to create characters | 14 | |
| 3659618247 | character trait | a character's personality; a trait is not a physical description of a character | 15 | |
| 3659626115 | chronological order | the order in which events happen in time | 16 | |
| 3659630474 | clarifying | the reader's process of pausing occasionally while reading to quickly review what he or she understands | 17 | |
| 3659638346 | comparison | the process of identifying similarities | 18 | |
| 3659641417 | concrete poetry | a type of poetry that uses its physical of visual form to present its message | 19 | |
| 3659660584 | conflict | the tension of problem in the story; a struggle between opposing forces | 20 | |
| 3659668822 | consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds anywhere within a line of poetry | 21 | |
| 3659674155 | context clues | hints or suggestions that may surround unfamiliar words or phrases and clarify their meaning | 22 | |
| 3659680468 | contrast | the process of pointing out differences between things | 23 | |
| 3659683732 | couplet | a rhymed pair of lines in a poem | 24 | |
| 3659687133 | dialect | a form of language that is spoken in a particular place or by a particular group of people | 25 | |
| 3659691481 | dialogue | the conversation between characters in a drama of narrative | 26 | |
| 3659696312 | drawing conclusions | combining several pieces of information to make an inference | 27 | |
| 3659704309 | enjambment | in poetry, the running over of a line or thought into the next verse | 28 | |
| 3659708769 | epiphany | a sudden moment of understanding that causes a character to change or to act in a certain way | 29 | |
| 3659715039 | epitaph | a short poem or verse written in memory of someone | 30 | |
| 3659717820 | essay | a short work of nonfiction that deals with a single subject | 31 | |
| 3659723384 | evaluating | the process of judging the value of someone or something | 32 | |
| 3659728191 | extended metaphor | a figure of speech that compares two essentially unlike things in great length | 33 | |
| 3659731711 | fable | a brief tale that teaches a lesson about human nature | 34 | |
| 3659739322 | fantasy | a work of literature that contains at least one fantastic unreal element | 35 | |
| 3659743026 | fiction | prose writing that tells an imaginary story | 36 | |
| 3659747723 | figurative language | expressions that are not literally true | 37 | |
| 3659751806 | folklore | traditions, customs and stories that are passed down within a culture | 38 | |
| 3659754989 | foot | a unit of meter within a line of poetry | 39 | |
| 3665151755 | foreshadowing | when the writer provides clues of hints that suggest or predict future event in the story | 40 | |
| 3665177778 | free verse | poetry without regular patterns of rhyme and rhythm | 41 | |
| 3665184724 | generalization | a broad statement about an entire group | 42 | |
| 3665189096 | genre | a type or category of literature | 43 | |
| 3665194949 | haiku | a traditional form of Japanese poetry, usually dealing with nature | 44 | |
| 3665205413 | humor | the quality that provokes laughter or amusement | 45 | |
| 3665213162 | hyperbole | a figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or humorous effect | 46 | |
| 3665221562 | imagery | the use of words and phrases that appeal to the five senses | 47 | |
| 3665229850 | inference | is a logical guess based on evidence in the text | 48 | |
| 3665235012 | irony | a contrast between what is expected and what actually exists of happens | 49 | |
| 3665242670 | literal meaning | the actual meaning of a word or phrase | 50 | |
| 3665245347 | lyric | poetry: a song-like poem written mainly to express the feelings or emotions of a single speaker | 51 | |
| 3665260448 | meter | the regular pattern of accented and unaccented syllables | 52 | |
| 3665265635 | metonymy | the metaphorical substitution of one word or phrase for another related word or phrase | 53 | |
| 3665281312 | mood | a mood or atmosphere is the feeling that a literary work conveys to readers | 54 | |
| 3665285175 | motif | a recurring object, concept, or structure in a work of literature | 55 | |
| 3665301245 | motivation | the reason why a character acts, feels or think in a | 56 | |
| 3665340266 | myth | a traditional story that attempts to explain how the world was created of why the world is the way that it is | 57 | |
| 3665346008 | narrative | any writing that tells a story | 58 | |
| 3665351174 | novel | a work of fiction that is longer and more complex than a short story | 59 | |
| 3665360980 | ode | a lyric poem of some length, usually of serious of meditative nature and having an elevated style and formal structure | 60 | |
| 3665371477 | onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sound suggest their meaning | 61 | |
| 3665377604 | oral history | stories of people's lives related by word of mouth | 62 | |
| 3665382169 | oxymoron | a form of figurative language combining contradictory words of ideas | 63 | |
| 3665390953 | paradox | a statement that seems to contradict itself but is, nevertheless, true | 64 | |
| 3665398044 | parallelism | the use of similar grammatical constructions to express ideas that are related or equal in importance | 65 | |
| 3665409356 | paraphrasing | the restatement of a text by readers in their own words or in another form | 66 | |
| 3665415840 | parody | a literary or artistic work that intimates the characteristic style of an author 's work for comic effect or ridicule | 67 | |
| 3665502934 | personification | a figure of speech where animals, ideas or inanimate objects are given human characteristics | 68 | |
| 3665513384 | persuasion | persuasive writing is meant to sway readers' feelings beliefs, or actions. | 69 | |
| 3667099538 | plot | the sequence of related events that make up a story | 70 | |
| 3667108016 | point of view | perspective from which a story is told | 71 | |
| 3667112756 | predicting | the process of gathering information and combining it with the reader's own knowledge to guess what might occur in the story | 72 | |
| 3667120550 | primary source | a first hand account of an event | 73 | |
| 3667122434 | propaganda | text that uses false or misleading information to present a slanted point of view | 74 | |
| 3667132067 | prose | the ordinary form of spoken and written language; that is, language that lacks the special features of poetry | 75 | |
| 3667150590 | questioning | the process of raising questions while reading in an effort to understand characters and events | 76 | |
| 3667162433 | realistic fiction | imaginative writing set in the real, modern world | 77 | |
| 3667171316 | refrain | repetition in literature of one or more lines at regular intervals; sometimes called chorus | 78 | |
| 3667178565 | repetition | a technique in which sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for effect or emphasis | 79 | |
| 3667182041 | rhyme | repetition of an identical or similarly accented sound or sounds in a work | 80 | |
| 3667192986 | rhythm | refers to the pattern of flow of sounds created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 81 | |
| 3667200456 | sarcasm | the use of praise to mock someone or something; the use of mockery or verbal irony | 82 | |
| 3667211748 | satire | a literary technique in which ideas or customs are ridiculed for the purpose of improving society | 83 | |
| 3667219407 | scanning | the process of searching through for a particular fact or piece of information | 84 | |
| 3667225248 | scene | a section in a play presenting events that occur in one place at one time | 85 | |
| 3667232834 | secondary source | a secondary source presents information compiled from or based on other sources | 86 | |
| 3667236655 | sensory details | words and phrases that help readers see, hear, taste, feel, or smell what an author is describing | 87 | |
| 3667245323 | sequence | the order in which events occur or in which ideas are presented | 88 | |
| 3667249148 | setting | the time, place, physical details, and circumstances in which a story occurs | 89 | |
| 3667255504 | soliloquy | a speech delivered by a character who is alone on the stage | 90 | |
| 3667260988 | speaker | the voice that talks to the reader in a poem, as the narrator does in a work of fiction | 91 | |
| 3667268427 | speech | a talk given in public | 92 | |
| 3667270311 | stage directions | the instructions to the actors, director and stage crew in the script of a play | 93 | |
| 3667276096 | stanza | a grouping of two or more lines within a poem | 94 | |
| 3667283299 | stereotype | a broad generalization or an oversimplified view that disregards individual differences | 95 | |
| 3667291271 | suspense | a feeling of growing tension and excitement | 96 | |
| 3667295255 | symbolism | using something specific to stand for something else, especially an idea | 97 | |
| 3667323815 | tall tale | a humorously exaggerated story about impossible events | 98 | |
| 3667329501 | tone | the writer's attitude of feeling about his or her subject | 99 |
