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100
A piece of writing that tells about imaginary characters and events.
Fiction
100
A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison.
simile
100
The writers attitude toward his or her audience and subject.
Tone
100
A scene within a story the interrupts the sequence of events to relate events that occurred in the story
Flashback
100
A story written to be performed by actors
Drama
200
A brief work of fiction that is like a novel and contains a plot.
Short Story
200
The turning point of the story or the high point in the action.
Climax
200
A type if figurative language in which a nonhuman object is given human qualities.
Personification
200
Fiction that combines elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact
Science Fiction
200
Notes included in a drama to describe how the wor is to be performed on stage
Stage Directions
300
A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else.
Metaphor
300
the act of creating and developing a character.
Characterization
300
The use more than once of any element language a sound,word,phrase,clause,or sentence
Repetition
300
A nonfiction story in which the writer tells the life story of another person
Biography
300
Anything that stands for or represents something else
Symbol
400
The use of words that imitate sound. (crash, buzz, etc)
onomatopeia
400
a regular pattern if rhyming words in a poem.
Rhyme Scheme
400
The Authors use of clues to hint at what might happen
Foreshadowing
400
The story of the writers own life
Autobiography
400
A central message in literary work
Theme
500
The time and place of the story.
Setting
500
A 3 line Japanese verse form. The first and 3rd lines has five syllables The second line has seven syllables.
Haiku
500
A contradiction between what happens and what is expected
Irony
500
A conversation between characters
Dialogue
500
The imaginary voice a poet uses when writing a poem
Speaker