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| the process of making people come alive through written words | ||
| author directly describes character | ||
| the character is revealed through their personality, appearance, words, actions, and effect on others | ||
| comparison using "like," "as," "than," or "resembles | ||
| comparison saying one thing is another; doesn't use any connectives | ||
| directly compares two things with a verb such as "is" | ||
| a comparison that is suggested rather than stated directly | ||
| giving human qualities to animals or objects | ||
| language that appeals to the senses | ||
| a word that appeals to one of the senses | ||
| a contrast between expectation and reality | ||
| when the audience knows something the character(s) do(es) not | ||
| surprise ending; , occurs when the outcome of a work is unexpected, or events turn out to be the opposite from what one had expected | ||
| the sequence of events in a story | ||
| the background of the story explains who the characters are and what their conflict might be (setting); exposition | ||
| a struggle between opposing forces | ||
| Most exciting moment of the story; turning point; resolves the conflict | ||
| the perspective from which a story is told | ||
| a struggle between a character and an outside force | ||
| a problem or struggle within a character | ||
| the final unraveling or solution of the plot | ||
| all-knowing | ||
| character in the story who tells the tale from his/her point of view | ||
| a narrator outside of the action who tells the story from the he/she vantage point | ||
| told using third person language, but author may know only what the main character is thinking or feeling | ||
| The time and place of a story | ||
| the mood of the story which is influenced by the setting | ||
| the repetition of sounds at the ends of words | ||
| regular pattern of rhyme in a poem | ||
| a word that souds like what it means | ||
| repetition of the same consonant sound in several words | ||
| repetition of sounds within a line (but not at the end of the line) | ||
| The pattern or beat of a poem; based on repetition | ||
| a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry | ||
| a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables; u u / | ||
| a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables; / u u | ||
| a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables; u / | ||
| a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed syllables; / u | ||
| Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme |
