| Term | Definition |
| personification | giving human-like characteristics to nonliving things or animals |
| poetry | a kind of compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery to appeal to emotion and imagination |
| end rhyme | rhymes at the end of lines |
| alliteration | repetition of beginning sounds of words |
| rhyme | the repetition of accented vowel words |
| repetition | repeated something |
| parody | an imitation of the style a particular writer, artist, or genre with an exaggeration |
| irony | a contrast between what is expected and what really happens |
| simile | a comparison of two unlike things using like or as |
| rhythm | a musical quality produced by the repetition of sound patterns |
| mood | the overall emotion created by a work of literature |
| limerick | a humorous five-lined verse that has a rhyme scheme of aabba |
| figurative language | language that describes one thing in terms of something else and is not literally true |
| free verse | poetry that is free of rhyme scheme |
| tone | the attitude a writer shows toward an audience, a subject, or a character |
| onomatopoeia | sound words |
| first person point of view | when a person is telling the story as if they are in the story |
| third person point of view | when a person writes from the perspective of someone outside the story |
| suspense | the anxious curiosity the reader feels about what will happen next in a story |
| stanza | a group of lines in a poem |
| protagonist | the good guy in a story |
| antagonist | the bad guy in a story |
| biography | the story of a persons life written by another person |
| autobiography | the story of a persons life written by that person |
| imagery | language that appeals to the senses |
| conflict | a struggle |
| setting | the time and place of story |
| foreshadowing | giving hints and clues to suggest events that will happen later in the plot |
| climax | most exciting point of the story |
| short story | a fictional narrative that is about five to twenty pages |
