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| A category of literature, marked by a distincitive style, form, or content |
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| A literary work whose content is produced by the imagination and is not necessarily based on fact |
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| A prose or verse composition, telling a serious story that is intended to be acted for theater, television, radio, or the cinema |
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| A work of fiction, drama, or film dealing with a puzzling crime |
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| A piece of writing usng only facts |
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| A piece of literature written in meter and/or verse; doesn't have to rhyme and is often in short, choppy form. |
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| A person's life story written by himself or herself |
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| A person's life story written by someone else |
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| The name of a person, place, thing, or idea |
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| A word that whows action, state of being, or links the subject to the predicate of a sentence |
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| A word used as a substitute for a noun |
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| A word that modifies or describes a noun or a pronoun |
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| A word that describes or modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb |
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| A word used to show the relationship between a noun or a pronoun to some other word in the sentence |
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| A word that joins words, phrases, and clauses |
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| A word or group of words used to express strong and sudden feeling |
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| A daily record, especially a personal record of events, experiences, and observations; not intended to be ready by others |
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| A short literary composition on a single subject, usually presenting the personal view of the author |
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| A usually short narrative making a cautionary point and often employing as characters animals that speak and act like human beings |
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| A short piece of prose fiction, having few characters and aiming at unity of effect |
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| A personal record of occurrences, experiences, and reflections kept on a regular basis and intended to be read by others |
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| Written conversation between two or more characters in a story |
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| Figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things NOT using like or as |
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| A comparison of two things using like or as |
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| A word that imitates the sound it represents. |
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| The time and place of the action in a story |
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| The feeling or atmosphere that the writer creates |
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| Hints or clues to events that will happen later in the story |
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| The reason something happens |
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| Events that take place due to a cause |
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| A problem that takes place in a character's conscience |
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| A problem caused by something outside the character |
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| events are told according to the time they took place |
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| A contrast between what is expected and what really happens |
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| The peak of any story, it is what the story is building up to |
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| An implied message sent by any story; what you learn from reading the story |
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| A narrator who intentionally attempts to deceive the audience or other characters in the story |
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| the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words |
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| A reference to a person or event with which the reader is expected to be familiar |
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| A comparison to find the relationship between two dissimilar things |
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| An event that happened before the beginning of the story or at an earlier point in the story |
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| Figure of speech in which the truth is greatly exaggerated |
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| Words or phrases that make pictures formed in the mind |
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| A statement that seems to contradict itself |
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| A figure of speech where objects or animals take on human characteristics |
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| The order a series of events takes place |
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| A person, place, or thing that stands for something much broader |
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| Composed of at least two independent clauses, but no dependent clauses |
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| Consists of one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses |
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| Compound-Complex Sentences |
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| Made up of at least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses |
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| made up on one independent clause with no dependent clause attached |
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| Implies a state of being or condition for the subject, not an action |
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| Shows the action in a sentence |
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| A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun (a, an, the) |
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| Genre that is typically based on speculative scientific discoveries, environmental changes, space travel, or life on other planets |
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| Fiction writing that uses a historical setting and events |
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| The traditional beliefs, myths, tales, and practices of a people, transmitted orally and later written down |
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| Fiction characterized by highly fanciful or supernatural elements |
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| A dramatic work that is light and often humorous or satirical in tone and that usually contains a happy ending |
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| An unverified story handed down from earlier times, especially one popularly believed to be historical |
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| Traditional, typically ancient, story dealing with supernatural beings, ancestors, or heroes that explains aspects of the natural world, customs, or ideals of society |
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| A long medieval narrative in prose or verse that tells of the adventures and heroic exploits of chivalric heroes; an artistic work, such as a novel, story, or film that deals with sexual love, especially in an idealized form |
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| A literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit |
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| A piece of writing intended to be spoken |
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| A drama in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, a moral weakness, or an inability to cope with unfavorable circumstances |
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| The actor speaks out loud as if to himself or herself while alone on stage |
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| The actor speaks out loud with others on stage, but they cannot be heard |
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| The character defect that causes the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy |
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| The who or what a sentence is about |
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| Modifies the subject and includes the verb, objects, or phrases governed by the verb |
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| A noun that is not specific, such as man, city, horse, music |
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| The specific name of a person, place, or thing, such as Jane |
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| A noun such as herd, jury, or clergy that appears singular in formal shape, but denotes a group of persons or objects |
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| An informal term for an auxiliary verb which combines with a main verb to help it express tense, mood, and voice; ie: be, do, have, can, may, will, shall, etc. |
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| A verbal noun analogous to the Latin gerund, such as the English form ending in -ing when used as a noun, as in singing in "We admired the choir's singing" |
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| A form of a verb that can function independently as an adjective: "We had some BAKED beans." |
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| A verb form that contains verbal characteristics, much ad modification by adverbs and may be preceded by TO as in "To go willingly is to show strength" or "We want him to work harder." But may occur without TO: "She had them read the letter" "We may finish today." |
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| First Person Point of View |
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| The narrator is a character in the action of the story |
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| Third Person Point of View |
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| The narrator does not participate in the action of the story as one of the characters, but lets us know exactly how the characters feel |
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| A narrator who knows everything about all the characters; is ALL KNOWING |
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| A narrator whose knowledge is limited to ONE character, either major or minor |
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| A character who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with another |
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| The leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work |
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| The act of removing literature from publication due to its content |
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| Fiction based on an actual event and people where the author may embellish the facts |
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| A story, movie, etc., that entertains or fascinates by shocking or frightening, especially by an emphasis on bloodshed or supernatural forces |
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| Also called Anglo-Saxon, the English Language of A>D> 450-1150 (Chaucer) |
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| A prose or verse fable or short story; the characters are beasts that take on human characteristics and it usually has a moral |
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| A medieval verse tale characterized by comic, ribald treatment of themes drawn from life |
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| Any serious speech, discourse, or exhortation especially on a moral issue |
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| A short account of a particular incident or event of an interesting or amusing nature, often biographical |
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| Research found to be trustworthy |
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| Research that cannot be trusted due to the author's lack of knowledge or experience |
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| A list of source materials that are used or consulted in the preparation of a work or that are referred to in the text |
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