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| the series of related events that make up a story. |
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| a struggle between opposing characters or opposing forces. |
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| the final part of the story where the conflict is resolved and the story is brought to a close. |
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| the point in a story that creates the greatest suspense or interest. |
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| a conflict that takes place in a character's own mind. |
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| a character struggles with an outside force. |
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| the use of clues or hints to suggest events that will occur later in the plot. |
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| repeated elements of the plot |
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| a minor plot that relates in some way to the main story. |
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| information from the text that helps identify a word or word group. |
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| what will happen next in the plot |
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| the act or prccess of deriving a conclusion based solely on what one already knows. |
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| an account of a person's life or part of it, written or told by another person. |
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| a person's account of his or her own life or part of it. |
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| writing in which the feelings and opinions of the writer are revealed. |
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| writing that presents facts without revealing the writer's feelings and opinion. |
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| statements that can be proven true |
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| personal statement that are not necessarily true |
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| favoring one person or side |
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| the message, opinion, or insight that is the focus of a piece of nonfiction writing. |
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| a brief statement that presents the main idea of a subject |
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| the time and place of a story, play, or narrative poem. |
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| the attitude's of a writer toward his or her subject, characters, and audience. |
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| a final thought or judgment about what one has read |
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| a broad statement that can apply to many situations. |
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| the general idea or insight about life that a work of literature reveals. |
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| a repeated sound, word, phrase, line or group of lines. |
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| a reference to a statement, person, a place, or an event from literature, the arts, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, or science. |
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| an imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another thing. |
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| comparisons that use words such as AS, THAN, LIKE, and RESEMBLES to make comparisons. |
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| a figure of speech in which an object or animal is spoken of as if it had human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes. |
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| a person, a place, a thing, or an event that has meaning in itself and stands for something beyond itself as well. |
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| involves a contrast between what is said or written and what is really meant. |
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| occurs when what happens is very different from what we expect would happen. |
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| occurs when the audience or the reader knows something a character does not know. |
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| poetry without a regular meter or rhyme scheme |
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| a song or songlike poem that tells a story |
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| a lyric poem, rhymed or unrhymed, on a serious subject |
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| a long narrative poem that is written in a heightened language and tells stories of the deeds of a heroic character who embodies the value of a society. |
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| a poem that expresses the feelings or thoughts of a speaker rather than telling a story. |
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| an expression peculiar to a particular language that means something different from the literal meaning of the words. |
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| language that appeals to the senses |
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| the use of words whose sounds imitate or suggest their meaning. |
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| the repetition of a constant sound in words that are close together |
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| a fourteen-line poem, usually written in iambic pentameter. |
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| two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme. |
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| a poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died. |
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| an exaggerated, far-fetched story that is obviously untrue but is told as though it should be believed. |
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| a way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain geographical area or a certain group of people. |
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| a word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood as literally true. |
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