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Literary Terms @ PMM
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| authors's purpose | author's reason for creating a particular work. |
| autobiography | true story of a person’s life, told by that person |
| biography | true story of a person’s life, written by another person. |
| cause and effect | one event brings about the other event |
| character | people, animals, or imaginary creatures who take part in the action of a story |
| characterization | the way a writer creates and develops characters’ personalities |
| chronological order | time order |
| climax | turning point;the point of greatest interest |
| conflict | struggle between opposing forces |
| dialogue | words that characters speak aloud |
| drama | a play |
| exposition | establishes the setting, introduces the characters, and gives important background information |
| external conflict | stuggle betweena character and an outside force |
| internal conflict | stuggle within a character’s mind |
| falling action | occurs after the climax, conflicts are resolved |
| fiction | a narrative story that uses made-up characters or events |
| figurative language | words are used to express more than their dictionary meaning |
| free verse | poetry without regular patterns or rhyme |
| genre | type or category of literature |
| haiku | traditional for of Japanese poetry |
| imagery | words that appeal to a readers’ senses |
| inference | a logical guess based on evidence |
| metaphor | comparison of two things that have some quality in common |
| mood | a feeling that literary work conveys |
| moral | a lesson taught in a literary work |
| nonfiction | writing that tells about real people, places, and events |
| personification | giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea |
| plot | series of events in a story |
| repetition | use of sound, word, or phrase more than once |
| rising action | events in a story that move the plot forward |
| sensory detail | words and phrases that help readers see, hear, taste, smell, and feel what a writer describes |
| setting | time and place of the action of a piece of literary work |
| short story | a form of fiction that can generally be read in one setting |
| simile | a comparison of two things that have some quality in common, using the word like or as |
| speaker | voice that talks to the readers |
| stanza | grouping of two or more lines within a poem |
| theme | meaning or moral of a story |
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