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Golden Dict.
Hervey/Golden Dictionary Words/part 3
| literary term | definition |
|---|---|
| nonfiction | prose writing that deals with real people, events, and places without changing any facts |
| novel | a fictional story that is usually between one hundred and five hundred book pages long |
| onomatopoeia | sound imitates or suggests its meaning |
| oral tradition | collection of folk tales, songs, and poems that have been passed on orally from generation to generation |
| paraphrase | a restatement of a written work in which the meaning is expressed in other words |
| personification | a special kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human |
| plot | the series of related events that make up a story |
| poetry | a kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and 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 | repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines in a poem or song or even in a speech |
| rhyme | the repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them |
| end rhymes | rhymes at the end of lines |
| internal rhymes | rhymes within lines |
| rhyme scheme | a pattern of rhyming sounds at the end of lines in a poem |
| rhythm | a musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of other sound patterns |
| setting | time and place of a story, a poem, or a play |
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