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| Any kind of writing that is not verse - usually divided into fiction and nonfiction |
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| The time and place of the story, often including social and historical context as well as physical and temporal surroundings. |
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| The central idea or ideas that the writer explores through a text. |
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| the sequence of events in a poem, play, novel, or short story that make up the main storyline. |
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| the moment or scene of greatest tension in a work of fiction: it usually acts as a turning point. |
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| The ending of a play, novel, or drama where "all is revealed" and the plot is unraveled. |
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| The speaker or voice that tells the story |
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| Main Character. the audience tends to follow his or her development through the story |
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| A character who the protagonist has to struggle against in order to develop or change |
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| Emotion of the narrator or narrative voice of a story. The __________ is created through the combined effects of a number of features, such as diction, syntax, rhythm, etc. |
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| the prevailing mood created by a piece of writing, or the emotion surrounding it. |
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| The choice of words that writer makes. Another term for 'vocabulary". |
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| Language that is symbolic or metaphorical and not meant to be taken literally. |
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| A comparison of one thing to another in order to make a description more vivid. The ___________ actually states that one thing is the other. |
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| A comparison of one thing to another in order to make a description more vivid. __________ use the words "like" or "as" in this comparison. |
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| The attribution of human feelings, emotions, or sensations to an inanimate object. |
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| Like images, _______ represent something else. In very simple terms, a red rose is often used to ________ love |
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| A dominant theme, subject or idea that runs through a piece of literature. |
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| the repetition of the same consonant sound, especially at the beginning of words. Example: Lazy ladybugs lounge on the loo. |
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| the use of words to create a picture or image in the mind of the reader. Imagery can relate to any of the senses, not just sight, but also hearing, taste, touch, and smell. |
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| At its simplest level, irony means saying one thing whole meaning another. It occurs where a word, phrase or event has one surface meaning or emotion but another contradictory, possibly opposite, meaning or emotion is implied. |
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| The way in which sentences are structured. Sentences can be structured in different ways to achieve different effects. |
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