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Lesson 18 Literature
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| autobiography | the story of a person's life, written by that person |
| biography | the story of a person's life, written by someone else |
| flashback | a scene that is set at a time earlier than the main events of the story |
| folklore | the traditional tales and beliefs of a people |
| genre | a type of literature or art |
| metaphor | a figure of speach in which one thing is described as if it were another |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate the sounds they stand for |
| prose | ordinary speech or writing that does not have a regular rhythm |
| proverb | a short saying that expresses a truth or gives advice |
| simile | a figure of speech that uses like or as to compare two things that are not alike |