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| the plot is the sequence of events where each affects the next one through the principle of cause-and-effect. |
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| a person in a novel, play, or movie. |
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| Poetry is a type of literature based on the interplay of words and rhythm |
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| the place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place. |
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| the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic. |
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| DescriptionIn literature, mood is the atmosphere of the narrative. Mood is created by means of setting, attitude, and descriptions. |
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| A frame story is a literary technique that serves as a companion piece to a story within a story, where an introductory or main narrative sets the stage either for a more emphasized second narrative or for a set of shorter stories. |
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| Literary realism is part of the realist art movement beginning with mid-nineteenth-century French literature, and Russian literature and extending to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Literary realism attempts to represent familiar things as they are. |
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| Naturalism is a literary movement beginning in the late nineteenth century, similar to literary realism in its rejection of Romanticism, but distinct in its embrace of determinism, detachment, scientific objectivism, and social commentary. |
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| In literature and writing, stylistically elements are the use of any of a variety of techniques to give an auxiliary meaning, ideas, or feeling to the literalism or written |
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| A literary element, or narrative element, or element of literature is a constituent of all works of narrative fiction—a necessary feature of verbal storytelling that can be found in any written or spoken narrative. |
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| Genre means a type of art, literature, or music characterized by a specific form, content, and style. |
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| In film and television, drama is a genre of narrative fiction intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. |
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| literature in the form of prose, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people. |
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| prose writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history. |
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| Rhyme is a popular literary device in which the repetition of the same or similar sounds occurs in two or more words, usually at the end of lines in poems or songs. |
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| Rhythm is a literary device that demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables, particularly in verse form |
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| As a rhetorical device, it could be a word, a phrase, or a full-sentence, or a poetical line repeated to emphasize its significance in the entire text. |
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| Alliteration is a literary device where two or more words in a phrase or line of poetry share the same beginning consonant sound. |
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| Imagery is the literary term used for language and description that appeals to our five senses. When a writer attempts to describe something so that it appeals to our sense of smell, sight, taste, touch, or hearing; he/she has used imagery. |
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