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LITERARY TERMS
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Mood | atmosphere of feeling in a work |
| Tone | the author's attitude toward the people, places, and events in a work |
| Drama | a play |
| Novel | book length piece of fiction |
| Theme | central idea or meaning of story |
| Humor | quality of being comical or funny |
| Symbol | an object used to represent something abstract |
| Author | a person who writes a story |
| Fiction | an invented story |
| Chapter | a unit of a novel |
| Setting | time and place of a story |
| Narrator | person who relates a story |
| Dialogue | conversation in a story or play |
| Metaphor | figure of speech shoeing a comparison |
| Character | person in a story |
| Biography | an account of a person's life written by another person |
| Flashback | an interruption in the story showing an earlier scene |
| Nonfiction | literature about real persons or things |
| Autobiography | an account of a person's life written by that person |