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| 8575425212 | imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) |  | 0 |
| 8575425213 | onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. |  | 1 |
| 8575425214 | exposition | needed to understand the story; contains characters, setting, and basic situation |  | 2 |
| 8575425215 | alliteration | Repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together. |  | 3 |
| 8575425216 | metaphor | A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as |  | 4 |
| 8575425217 | personification | the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea |  | 5 |
| 8575425218 | poetic devices | poetic techniques used for effect; Alliteration, Personification, Simile, Assonance, Onomatopoeia, Color imagery, Sound | 6 | |
| 8575425219 | hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. |  | 7 |
| 8575425220 | plot | Sequence of events in a story |  | 8 |
| 8575425221 | theme | A message about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader. |  | 9 |
| 8575425222 | setting | where the story takes place | 10 | |
| 8575425223 | characters | People or animals in story | 11 | |
| 8575425224 | prewriting | preparatory work for a piece of writing, as idea formulation, an outline, or research. |  | 12 |
| 8575425225 | drafting | 2nd stage of the writing process- getting ideas down on paper in some order. | 13 | |
| 8575425226 | revising | 3rd stage of the writing process- refining/changing ideas or concepts in the text. |  | 14 |
| 8575425227 | publishing | 5th stage of the writing process- making the text ready to share with an audience. | 15 | |
| 8575425228 | editing | Proofreading the draft for misspelled words, grammar, mechanic errors. |  | 16 |
| 8575425229 | poetry | Poetry is considered to be a form of verse; every other written form is considered to be prose |  | 17 |
| 8575425230 | stanza | A division in a poem named for the number of lines it contains |  | 18 |
| 8575425231 | drama | a story written to be performed by actors |  | 19 |
| 8575425232 | memoir | An account of the personal experiences of an author. |  | 20 |
| 8575425233 | antagonist | A character or force in conflict with the main character |  | 21 |
| 8575425234 | protagonist | Main character |  | 22 |
| 8575425235 | conflict | a struggle between opposing forces or points of view |  | 23 |
| 8575425236 | direct characterization | The author directly states a character's traits |  | 24 |
| 8575425237 | indirect characterization | A character's thoughts, actions, and words that reveal a character's traits |  | 25 |
| 8575425238 | dialog | a conversation between two or more people; words shared between people |  | 26 |
| 8575425239 | rising action | Events leading up to the climax a character struggles with a problem or problems; the suspense begins to build | | 27 |
| 8575425240 | climax | Most exciting moment of the story; turning point | | 28 |
| 8575425241 | falling action | Events after the climax, leading to the resolution | | 29 |
| 8575425242 | resolution | reveals the outcome; ties up loose ends |  | 30 |
| 8575425243 | point of view | The perspective from which a story is told |  | 31 |
| 8575425244 | first person | I, me, we | 32 | |
| 8575425245 | second person | You, your, yours | 33 | |
| 8575425246 | third person omniscient | the narrator knows all of the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in a work | 34 | |
| 8575425247 | third person limited | in third person limited the narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character | 35 | |
| 8575425248 | plagiarism | taking credit for someone's writing or ideas | 36 | |
| 8575425249 | suspense | a feeling of uncertainty and curiosity about what will happen next in a story | 37 | |
| 8575425250 | author | a writer | 38 | |
| 8575425251 | narrator | the person telling the story | 39 | |
| 8575425252 | constructive feedback | feedback intended to be helpful, corrective, and/or encouraging | 40 | |
| 8575425253 | prose | Any writing that is not poetry | 41 | |
| 8575425254 | simile | comparing two things using like or as |  | 42 |
| 8575425255 | rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhyme in a poem (ex. ABAB) |  | 43 |
| 8575425256 | script | a set of papers with writing that will be read and acted out | 44 | |
| 8575425257 | quatrain | A four line stanza | 45 | |
| 8575425258 | foot | A unit of stressed and unstressed syllables used to determine the meter of a poetic line. | 46 | |
| 8575425259 | quintrain | 5 line stanza | 47 | |
| 8575425260 | pentameter | Line consisting of 5 metrical feet. For instance, iambic pentameter equals 10 syllables (5 unstressed, 5 stressed). |  | 48 |
| 8575425261 | refrain | a regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song | 49 | |
| 8575425262 | assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds |  | 50 |
| 8575425263 | lamb | An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one; u / | 51 | |
| 8575425264 | iambic pentameter | A line of poetry that contains five iambic feet | 52 | |
| 8575425265 | meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 53 | |
| 8575425266 | consonance | Repetition of consonant sounds |  | 54 |
| 8575425267 | sestet | 6 line stanza | 55 | |
| 8575425268 | septet | 7 line stanza | 56 | |
| 8575425269 | octave | 8 line stanza | 57 | |
| 8575425270 | tercet | a three-line stanza | 58 | |
| 8575425271 | trochee | a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable; / u | 59 |
