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Literary Elements
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| nonfiction | writing that is based on fact |
| fiction | writing that include made up stories,events, and people. |
| biography | book about someone that is written by someone else. |
| autobiography | book about someone own life written by them |
| narrative poem | tells a story |
| lyric poems | makes the reader feel emotions/mood |
| monologue | speech given by one person on stage wen others are on stage to the audience |
| soliloquy | speech given on stage by one person and are on stage alone |
| aside | short comment to audience or another character in play |
| plot | sequence of events in a story |
| expositions | settings, characters,and conflicts introduced |
| climaxs | turning point |
| resolutions/denoument | final section of plot/ties up the loose ends of story. |
| flashback | is a scene or event that happened before the beginning of a story(sometimes interrupts a scence) |
| foreshadowing | giving clues about something before it happens |
| theme | the message that the author wants you to take away from a story |
| inference | making a guess based on information from text |
| first person point of view | "i did this, i did that" I, me,we |
| Third person omiscient | a narrator outside of the action can see everything and everywhere. he, she ,they |
| Third person limited | a narrator outside of the action tells about one character and only tells about them |