PROS E Is the ordinary form of written

PROS E Is the ordinary form of written language. Most writing that is not poetry, drama, or song is considered prose.

POETR Y Is one of the 3 major types of literature, the other being prose and drama. Story that rhymes.

NOVELS A novel is a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella.

NOVELLA S A short novel or long short story

SHORT STORY A story with a fully developed theme but significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel

NONFICTIO N Prose writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history.

DRAMA A play for theater, radio, or television

FOLK LITERATU RE Makes a different and longer journey, from the mouths of many tellers to the ears of many listeners.

PLOT The main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence

CONFLICT Conflict is the struggle between the opposing forces on which the action in a work of literature depends.

CHARACTER S A person portrayed in a novel, short story, or play. Characters can be animals or objects, also, but those are almost always personified.

POINT OF VIEW The angle from which a story is told. first-person: The narrator is a character in the story and refers to himself as “I. ” second person: The reader is the main character. Narrator uses the pronoun “you” when referring to the main character. third person: Neither the reader nor the narrator is the main character. Narrator uses the pronoun “he” or “she” when referring to the main character. third-person omniscient: The narrator can tell what is going on in the minds of all the characters. third-person limited: The narrator can tell what is going on in one or two of the characters, usually the main character.

SETTIN G Where the story takes place.

THEME The main idea of a story. A theme must be written as a complete sentence.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY is a book about the life of a person, written by that person.

BIOGRAHY is a detailed description or account of someone’s life.

EXPOSITO RY ESSAY is a type of writing, the purpose of which is to inform, explain, describe, or define the author's subject to the reader.

ESSA Y is a short piece of writing which is often written from an author's personal point of view.

DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY an essay that describes something, or defines something. there is a thesis but it isn’t necessarily argumentative

PERSONA L ESSAY an essay written in the first person usually about the writer's life.

PERSUASI VE ESSAY is an argumentative paper trying to sway the reader's opinion towards your own

INFORMATIONAL TEXT an essay to inform the reader of something. not to argue or persuade. but to inform them.

DIALOGU E the conversation between characters in a novel, drama, etc.

STAGE DIRECTOR someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a stage show

CHARACTERIZATIO N The act or an instance of characterizing.

NARRATIVE POEM is poetry that has a plot

LYRIC POEM a form of poetry with rhyming schemes that express personal and emotional feelings.

FORM a document (printed or electronic) with spaces in which to write or enter data

LINE The dialogue to be spoken in a script or screenplay

STANZAS is a unit within a larger poem. A stanza consists of a grouping of lines, set off by a space, that usually has a set pattern of meter and rhyme.

RHYTHM The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.

RHYM E is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words and is most often used in poetry and songs

SOUND DEVICES also known as "musical devices" make poetry a special art form.

ALLITERATIO N The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words.

ONOMATOPOEIMA The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe.

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.

LEGENE D A traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated

FOLK TALE is a short story that comes from the oral tradition.

MYTH A traditional story, esp. one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events.

FABLE S A short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral.

MORAL Concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior and the goodness or badness of human character

CHARACTERS ’ MOTIVES With the character own words, thoughts and actions. By describing their interaction with other characters

CHARACTER TRAITS the quality of a character; what a character is like.

SPEAKER A person who delivers a speech or lecture.

ANALOGY A comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification.

BREAK DOWN LONG SENTENCES

INTERNAL CONFLICT a struggle which takes place in the protagonist's mind and through which the character reaches a new understanding or dynamic change

WORD ROOT The root is the primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents

ANECDOT E a short account of a particular incident or event, especially of an interesting or amusing nature. a short, obscure historical or biographical account.

TRIBUT E

TONE a literary technique which encompasses the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work

Idioms • A form of expression natural to a language, person, or group of people

Paraphrasing Figurative Language

Direct Characterization • Describing the person, character; exactly as you see them, their personality and physical features and moral convictions and depict actions associated with that particular person.

Indirect Characterization • from what the writer knows about the personality of the character and imparting it to the reader in a second person manner, not as the actual first person observer.

Modern Fairy Tale • is a type of short narrative that typically features such folkloric characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments.

Repetition • It could show that the character is crazy, it could show guilt, and it could represent the author trying to make you believe what he believes. It's definition is different among different writers because everyone has a different style.

Word Parts

Local Color • A detailed setting forth of the characteristics of a particular locality, enabling the reader to "see" the setting.

Level of Meaning

Analogy • A comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification.

Simile • A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as, as in "How like the winter hath my absence been" or "So are you to my thoughts as food to life" (Shakespeare).

Metaphor • A metaphor is a phrase comparing two things without using "like" or ”as. ”

Humorous Essays

Significant Events

Compare and Contrast Characters