| Term | Definition |
| Narritive | The story or an account of an event or series of events. |
| Dialogue | A conversation between two people. |
| Setting | When and were the story takes place. |
| Narrator | In a narrating a poem. |
| Speaker | The ''voice'' narrating a poem. |
| Protagonist | The main character in a literary work. |
| Antagonist | A character or force in a conflict with the main character. |
| Conflict | A struggle between two opposing forces. |
| Inference | A logical guess based on evedince or reasoning. |
| Theme | The universal truth about life exxpressed in the passage. |
| Point of view | The perspective from which the story is told. |
| First person | A character narrates the story with I-me-my-mines in his or her speech. |
| Third person omniscient | The narrator is an outsider who sees into the mind of on of the character's. |
| Symbolism | The practice of using a person,thing,or object to represent something else. |
| Irony | When the reality of a situation is the oppisite of what is expected. |
| Tone | The writers or speakers attitude towards the subject of a story,towards a character,or towards tghe audience. |
| Mood | The overall feeling of a story. |
| Figurative language | Language that uses words or expresseions with a meaning that is diffrent from the litteralinterpritation(metephore,simile,personification). |
| Simile | A sentence that compares two unlike thing using ''like'' or ''as''. |
| Metaphore | A comparison of two unlike thing without using ''like'' or ''as''. |
| Personification | Givion human qualities to non living things. |
