literary forms
Also called a play, it is a story acted out on stage or screen
drama
hiss, buzz, woof, swish
onomatopoeia
main character in a story
protagonist
An introduction to a book before the first chapter begins
prologue
A type of book that provides information arranged for easy access, like dictionaries and encyclopedias; they cannot be checked out
reference
poem
Sally sells seashells by the seashore
alliteration
the character who opposes the main character
antagonist
Where you would look to see chapter titles or contents within a book
table of contents
A reference book that gives, in alphabetical order, synonyms and antonyms for certain words
thesaurus
A story set in an imaginary world in which the characters have supernatural powers or abilities
fantasy
The reader sees hints and guesses about what will happen later in the story
foreshadowing
the time and place of a story
setting
An alphabetical listing of information in a book and the page numbers of the information
index
Another word for a newspaper or magazine
periodical
A made-story that is based upon a real time and place in history
historical fiction
Conversations between characters, as evidence by quotation marks " "
dialogue
the person or character who is telling a story
narrator
an alphabetical listing of words and their definitions, usually found at the end of a book
glossary
The organization that consists of scholars who make the rules about the appropriate format of papers written for an English class
MLA
Writing that attempts to show life as it really is
realistic fiction
The reader is really interested in a scene and is anxious to know what will happen next
suspense
the message about life delivered through a story
theme
Information that follows the ending of a book to explain what happened after the ending
epilogue
information given in parentheses in a research paper to give credit to a source that was used to write the paper
citation