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1.Plot - The action sequence of a narrative. 2. Theme - The main message of the story. 3. Climax - High point of interest. 4. Exposition - The beginning of the story 5. Denouement - The end of a story. 6. In medias Res - A story that begins in the middle of a sequence of events. 7. Topic - Expression in one or two words.

8. Rising Action - Lngist part of the story. 9. Falling action - Explains the complications of the climax to the reader. 10. Conflict - struggle between opposing forces. 11. Metaphor - a figure of speech in which something is spoken of as though it were something else.

12. Simile - A figure of speech in which like or as is used to make a comparison. 13. Personification - a figure of speech in which something not human is treated as if it where. 14. Symbolism - The use of something to represent something beyond itself. 15. Alliteration - Repetition of the same intital consonant sound

16. Sensational Irony - Exits when what happens is the exact opposite of what is expected to happen. 17. Verbal Irony - exist when a person says one thing and means another.

18. Dramatic irony - Occurs when the audience has important Information that the characters do not. 19. Onomatopoeia - The use of a word or phrase that actually imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes. 20. Hyperbole - A great exaggeration. 21. Foreshadowing - Use of clues or hint of what will happen later. 22. First person narration - narrated by "I". 23. second person narration - narrated by "you"

24. Third person limited - Narration limited to one character's thoughts and feelings as the author's own; he or she. 25. Third person omniscient - Narration in which the author knows and reveals several character's thoughts and feelings. 26. Narrative - A story told in faction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama. 27. Characterization - The act of creating and developing characters. 28. setting - Time and place of action. 29. Short story - a short work of fiction. 30. Narrator - Speaker or character who tells a story. 31. Tone - The writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject. 32. Protagonist - Main Character or hero.

33. Antagonist - A characterization or force in conflict with the main character. 34. Fiction - Prose writing telling about imaginary characters and their traits. 35. Direct Characterization - when the author directly tells what the characters' traits are. 36. Indirect characterization - When the author tells what the characters look like, does, say, and how other characters react to them. 37. Dynamic Character - One who develops or grows during the story. 37. Dynamic Character - who develpos or grows during the story. 38. Static Character - One who doesn't develops or grows during the story.

39. Novel - A long work of fiction. 40. Sensory Language - Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses. 41. Cliche' - A phrase that has used so long that its meaning is lost. 42. Allusion - A referance in a work of literature to a character, place, or situation form another work of literature, music, or art. 43. Flashback - narration of events before the normal time sequence of the plot. 44. Analogy - When one thing is explained in terms of another. 45. Understatement - When a response is deliberately incomplete. 46. Oxymoron - Two words that seem to mean the opposite of each other. 47. Biography - A work about a person's life written by another person. 48. Autobiography - A person writing about his/her own self. 49. Nonfiction - Prose writing presenting ideas or telling about real People, places, objects, or events. 50. Figurative language - Writing or speech not meant to be interpreted.

51. Legend - Story about someone local or form a particular region. 52. Myth - A fictional account that explains the actions of gods or causes of natural phenomena.

53. Caricature - a drawing of a person in wich one feature is exaggerated. 54. Anecdote - A brief story about an interesting, amusing, or strange event. 55. Genre - A division or type of language.

56. Prose - ordinary form of written language.

57. Mood - Feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. 58. Direction - word choice. 59. Denotation - Dictionary meaning of word.

60. Connotation - meaning of a word in context of a work. 61. Narrative essay - tells a story 62. Descriptive essay - Conveys an impression about a person, place, thing, or idea. 63. Persuasive essay - tries to get reader to do something or accept writer's Point of view. 64. Expository essay - Gives information, discusses idea, or expains a process. 65. Satire - using humor to make fun of events in a literary work. 66. Dialect - form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group.

67. Dialogue - Conversation between characters. 68. Suspense - A feeling of event in a literary work. 69. Paradox - A statement that seems contradictory but is actually true. 70. Rhetorical question - A question asked for effort, not to be answered. 71. Free verse - A type of Poetry. 72. Blank verse - Poetry written in un rhymed iambic pentameter.

73. Soliloquy - one character, on stage, thinking aloud alone. 74. Couplet - a pair of rhyming lines usually of the same length and meter. 75. Tragedy - a work of literature, especially a play, that results in catstrophe for the main character. 76. Monologue - speech by one character in a play, story, or poem. 77. Comedy - Something very funny. 78. Foil - A character who is contrasted with another character. 79. Aside - A short speech delivered by an actor in a play expressing his/her thoughts. 80. Drama - a story written to be performed by actors. 81. Repetition - more than one use of any element of language. 82. Parody - making fun of a work by writing something similar but exaggerated. 83. Dramatic poetry - Poetry that includes the techniques of drama. 84. Rhyme scheme - A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem. 85. Round Character - A character with many different traits. 86. Archetype - original pattern or model. 87.Staza - A group of lines in a poem considered as a unit. 88. Narrative Poem - A poem that tells a story. 89.Epic simile - Extended simile in a long epic poem, often several lines. 90.Lyric - A poem extended simile in a long epic poem, often several lines. 91. Epic - A long story.92. 93. Haiku - A three kine poem about nature. 94. Rhythm - The pattern created by arranging tressed and unstressed syllables. 95. Rhyme - Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all succeeding consonant. 100. Chronological order - The order in which something happened.