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Literary Terms
Term | Definition |
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Autobiography | Story of the writer's own life told by the writer. |
Biography | Life story of a person told by another person. |
Character | Person or animal that takes part in the action of the story. |
Characterization | Act of creating and developing a character. |
Conflict | Struggle between opposing forces. |
Dialogue | Spoken conversation between characters. |
Fiction | Writing that tells about imaginary characters and events. |
Figurative Language | Writing or speech that is no to be taken literally. |
Metaphor | Something is described as though it were something else: |
Simile | A comparison of two unlike things, using "like" or "as": |
Imagery | Author's use of words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the five senses. |
Narrator's Perspective | The way the narrator sees things. |
First Person Narrator | The story is told from the perspective of a character in the story. Uses personal pronouns such as I, me, we, our, etc. |
Third Person Narrator | The story is told from the perspective of someone not participating in the story. |
Plot | The sequence of events in which each event results from a previous one and causes the next. |
Setting | The time and place of the story. |
Theme | A central message, concern, or purpose in a story. |
Non Fiction | Writing that present and explains ideas or that tell about real people, objects, and events. |