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| 8397132020 | Fiction | Anything made up or shaped | 0 | |
| 8397132021 | Narration | The recounting or telling of a sequence of events or actions | 1 | |
| 8397132022 | Myths | A story that deals with the relationships of God's to humanity or with battles among heroes in time past | 2 | |
| 8397132023 | Epic | Long narrative poem elevating character speech and action | 3 | |
| 8397132024 | Fables | A brief story illustrating a moral truth | 4 | |
| 8397132025 | Parables | Short stories that use everyday images to communicate religious messages. | 5 | |
| 8397132026 | Romances | Length Spanish and French stories of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries | 6 | |
| 8397132027 | novel (n) | a book that tells a story about people and things that are not real | 7 | |
| 8397132028 | short story | a story with a fully developed theme but significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel | 8 | |
| 8397132029 | verisimilitude | (n.) the quality of appearing to be true, real, likely, or probable | 9 | |
| 8397132030 | Donnée | Something given | 10 | |
| 8397132031 | Characters | Persons — or animals or natural forces represented as persons — in a work of literature. | 11 | |
| 8397132032 | organic unity | the working together of all the parts to make an inseparable whole | 12 | |
| 8397132033 | Conflict | A struggle between two opposing forces | 13 | |
| 8397132034 | protagonist (n) | the leading character in a play, novel, or story | 14 | |
| 8397132035 | Plot | The sequence of events in a story | 15 | |
| 8397132036 | Antagonists | Adversaries; opponents | 16 | |
| 8397132037 | structures | The way a story is put together | 17 | |
| 8397132038 | Idea | The result of general and abstract thinking | 18 | |
| 8397132039 | Themes | An exploration of an idea | 19 | |
| 8397132040 | Narration | the telling of a story in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama; one of the four modes of discourse | 20 | |
| 8397132041 | issue | an important question that is in dispute and must be settled | 21 | |
| 8397132042 | description (n) | a piece of writing or speech that gives details about what someone or something is like | 22 | |
| 8397132043 | Metaphor | A comparison that establishes a figurative identity between objects being compared. | 23 | |
| 8397132044 | Symbolism | A device in literature where an object represents an idea. | 24 | |
| 8397132045 | Dialogue | Communication between two or more people | 25 | |
| 8397132046 | Tone | the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc. | 26 | |
| 8397132047 | point of view | the speaker's perspective and how they feel about what they're writing. | 27 | |
| 8397132048 | first person point of view | a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself | 28 | |
| 8397132049 | Speaker | The voice that talks to the reader | 29 | |
| 8397132050 | second person point of view | the narrator addresses the reader directly using the pronoun "you" | 30 | |
| 8397132051 | limited point of view | the narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character | 31 | |
| 8397132052 | omniscient point of view | the narrator is capable of knowing, telling, and seeing all | 32 | |
| 8397132053 | dramatic point of view | the narrator is not a character and can only report what is seen and heard | 33 | |
| 8397132054 | Irony | the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning | 34 | |
| 8397132055 | verbal irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant | 35 | |
| 8397132056 | situational irony | An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected | 36 | |
| 8397132057 | dramatic irony | when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't | 37 | |
| 8397132058 | Symbol | anything that stands for or represents something else | 38 | |
| 8397132059 | Cultural | A symbol that is recognized and shared as a result of a common political social and cultural heritage | 39 | |
| 8397132060 | Contextual | Symbol specific to the story | 40 | |
| 8397132061 | Allegory | A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions | 41 | |
| 8397132062 | Commentary | (n.) a series of notes clarifying or explaining something; an expression of opinion | 42 | |
| 8397132063 | major mover | participant in work's action who causes things to happen or who is the subject of major events | 43 | |
| 8397132064 | reliable narrator | a believable, trustworthy commentator on events and characters in a story | 44 | |
| 8397132065 | unreliable narrator | a narrator whose account of events appears to be faulty, misleadingly biased, or otherwise distorted | 45 | |
| 8397132066 | authorial voice | the voice or speaker used by authors when seemingly speaking for themselves | 46 | |
| 8397132067 | Trait | Specific characteristic of an individual | 47 | |
| 8397132068 | dynamic character | A character who grows, learns, or changes as a result of the story's action | 48 | |
| 8397132069 | Hero | an inspiring character who demonstrates honor and integrity and does noble deeds | 49 | |
| 8397132070 | static character | A character that does not change from the beginning of the story to the end | 50 | |
| 8397132071 | stock character | the stereotyped character in which he is immediately known from typical characters in history | 51 | |
| 8397132072 | Representative | A flat character with the qualities of all other members of a group | 52 | |
| 8397132073 | stereotype character | A flat character who possesses expected traits of a group rather than being an individual | 53 | |
| 8397132074 | poems | pieces of writing that often include rhythm and rhyme | 54 | |
| 8397132075 | narrative ballad | a poem in ballad measure telling a story and also containing dramatic speeches | 55 | |
| 8397132076 | Narrative | The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events. | 56 | |
| 8397132077 | Ballad | A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas | 57 | |
| 8397132078 | specific language | words that narrow what is understood from a general category to a particular item or group within it | 58 | |
| 8397132079 | General Language | Signifies broad classes of persons, objects, and phenomena | 59 | |
| 8397132080 | concrete diction | specific words that describe physical qualities or conditions. | 60 | |
| 8397132081 | abstract diction | words that express general ideas or concepts | 61 | |
| 8397132082 | high diction | big words; formal language | 62 | |
| 8397132083 | neutral diction | uses standard language and vocabulary without elaborate words and may include contractions. | 63 | |
| 8397132084 | informal diction | language that is not as lofty or impersonal as formal diction; similar to everyday speech | 64 | |
| 8397132085 | Idiom | A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally. | 65 | |
| 8397132086 | Dialects | variants of a standard language along regional or ethnic lines | 66 | |
| 8397132087 | slang (n) | informal words and expressions that are more common in spoken language | 67 | |
| 8397132088 | jargon | vocabulary distinctive to a particular group of people | 68 | |
| 8397132089 | Syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 69 | |
| 8397132090 | rhetorical | relating to speech that is used to persuade or have some effect; insincere in expression | 70 | |
| 8397132091 | Parallelism | Phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other | 71 | |
| 8397132092 | Repetition | Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis | 72 | |
| 8397132093 | antithesis | the direct opposite, a sharp contrast | 73 | |
| 8397132094 | Antimetabole | The repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast. | 74 | |
| 8397132095 | Chiasmus | A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed | 75 | |
| 8397132096 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 76 | |
| 8397132097 | Connotation | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests | 77 | |
| 8397132098 | Setting | The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs. | 78 | |
| 8397132099 | Persona | An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. | 79 | |
| 8397132100 | listener | the person who receives the speaker's message | 80 | |
| 8397132101 | dramatic monologue | a poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener | 81 | |
| 8397132102 | Imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 82 | |
| 8397132103 | visual images | a visual representation that preserves spatial and form information | 83 | |
| 8397132104 | gustatory images | references to impressions of taste | 84 | |
| 8397132105 | tactile images | images of touch and texture | 85 | |
| 8397132106 | Kinesthetic | Relates to interaction with people and objects in real space. | 86 | |
| 8397132107 | kinetic | pertaining to motion | 87 | |
| 8397209079 | Enclosing setting | Organizational application of place, time, and object | 88 | |
| 8397209080 | Mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader | 89 |
