Figures of Speech
Giving human qualities to an object or animal.
Personification
A story about people and events that are made up but could actually happen in real life.
Realistic Fiction
A story that is told from the perspective of someone in the story.
First Person
The parts a play/drama is divided into.
Acts/Scenes
Using like or as to compare two or more things.
Simile
A story with real and/or fake characters that is set in a real time period or event from history.
Historical Fiction
The person or voice who is telling the story.
Narrator
Characters
Metaphor
Stories that were originally told by word of mouth and include exaggerated characters and obstacles. They have been passed down throughout generations. They usually include a moral or a lesson.
Folktale
When a story is told by the narrator addressing the reader.
Second Person
When and where the play takes place.
Setting
A word that imitates the sound it represents.
Onomotopoeia
A piece of literature that has rhythm, often repeats or rhymes, and expresses feelings or ideas.
Poem
When a story is told by someone who is not a part of the story.
Third Person
The speech between characters.
Dialogue
The repetition of the same beginning sound within a statement.
Alliteration
A folktale that explains something about the world such a as frightening or mysterious natural forces.
Myth
The text of a play.
Script