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Literary Terms
"DMS" Literary Terms #1B
Terms | Definitions |
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Concrete Poem | poem shaped to look like its subject (love poem written in the shape of a heart) |
Conflict | a struggle between two or more different forces |
Description | type of writing that creates a clear picture of something - person, animal, object, place or event |
Details | used to make writing more precise and descriptive |
Biography | story of a person's life written by someone else |
Dialect | how people speak (their accent or slang terms) |
Dialogue | conversation between characters in a novel |
Drama | story that is performed for an audience (on stage play) |
End-Stopped Line | in poetry where a pause naturally happens at the endof the line (usually because of punctuation) |
Episode | incident within a nevol or story (each week there is a new ____ that you can watch of the show Glee. |
Essay | nonfiction that deals with any subject |
Exposition | writing that presents facts or explains ideas |
Fable | brief folk tale told to teach a moral or lesson |