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