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Literary Terms
Stack #129262
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| alliteration | The repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds in words that are very close together. |
| antonym | A word that is opposite of another word. |
| autobiography | The story of a person's life, written or told by that person. |
| biography | The story of a person's life, written or told by another person. |
| character | A person or an animal in a story, play, or other literary work. |
| chronological order | In the order it happened. |
| climax | The major turning point in a plot. |
| compare | To show how things are alike. |
| conflict | A struggle or clash between opposing forces. |
| contrast | To show how things are different. |
| description | The kind of writing that creates a clear image of something, usually by using details that appeal to one or more senses:sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. |
| dialogue | Conversation between two or more characters. |
| dictionary | Tells the meanings and pronunciation of words. |
| drama | A story written to be acted in front of an audience |
| essay | A short piece of nonfiction prose. |
| fable | A very brief story in prose or verse that teaches a moral or a practical lesson about how to succeed in life. |
| fantasy | Imaginative writing that carries the reader into an invented world where the laws of nature as we know them do not operate. |
| fiction | A prose account that is made up rather than true. |
| figure of speech | A word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of something else and is not literally true. |
| flashback | A scene that breaks the normal time order of the plot to show a past event. |
| folk tale | A story with no known author, originally passed on from generation to another by word of mouth. |
| foreshadowing | The use of clues or hints to suggest events that will occur later in the plot. |
| fragment sentence | Is a group of words that either deoes not have a subject and verb or does nor express a complete thought. |
| free verse | Poetry that is "free" of a regular meter and rhyme scheme. |
| idiom | A saying whose meaning can't be understood from the individual words in it. |
| imagery | Language that appeals to the senses-sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. |
| legend | A story, usually based on some history fact, that has been handed down from one generation to the next. |
| main idea | The most important idea expressed in a piece of writing. |
| metaphor | A comparison between two like things in which one thing becomes another thing. |
| mood | The overall emotion created by a work of literature. |
| myth | A story that usually explains something about the world and involves gods and other superhuman beings. |
| narration | The kind of writing that relates a series of connected events to tell "what happened." |
| nonfiction | Prose writing that deals with real people, events and places without changing any facts. |
| onomatopoeia | The use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning. |
| personification | Speaking of something that is not human as though it has human qualities. |
| plot | The series of related events that make up a story. |
| poetry | A kind of rhytmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech, imagery to appeal to emotion and imagination. |
| point of view | The vantage point from which a story is told. |
| prose | Any writing that is not poetry. |
| refrain | Few words, a line, or a whole stanza repeated at intervals. |
| run-on sentence | Two complete sentences as if they were one sentence. |
| setting | The time and place of a story, a poem, or a play. |
| short story | A fictional prose narrative that is from about five to twenty bookd pages long. |
| simile | A comparison between two unlike things using a word such as like, as, than, or resembles. |
| stanza | In a poem, a group of lines that form a unit. |
| summarize | To make a summary of. |
| symbol | A person, a place, a thing, or an event that has its own meaning and stands for something beyond itself as well. |
| synonym | A word that means the same as another. |
| tall tale | An exaggerated, fanciful story that gets taller and taller," more and more farfetched, the more it is told and retold. |
| theme | An idea about life revealed in a work of literature. |
| thesaurus | Contains lists of synonyms for certain words. |
| tone | The attitude a writer takes toward an audience, a subject, or a character. |
| noun | Names a person, place or thingEx boy, girl |
| pronoun | Takes the place of a nounEx he she it |
| adjective | Describes a noun or pronounCUTE puppy |
| verb | shows action or state of beingrun or is |
| adverb | Describes the verb, adjective, or another adverb Ex He ran very quickly |
| preposition | A word that shows location followed by a noun or pronoun known as the object of the preposition Ex The cat ran UNDER the fence. |
| conjunction | Connects words, phrases and/or clauses |
| interjection | Shows emotion Ex WOW! That hurt! |
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