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Literary Terms
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English
8th Grade
08/28/2007

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moral
Definition
A moral is a lesson taught by a literary work.
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motive
Definition
A reason that explains or partailly explains a characters thoughts, feelings, actions, or speech.
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myth
Definition
A mythis a fictional tale that explains the actions of gods or heroes or origins of elements of nature.
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narrator
Definition
A speaker or character who tells a story.
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nonfiction
Definition
Writing that presents and explains ideas or that tells about real people, places, objects, or events.
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novel
Definition
A long work of fiction.
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novella
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A fiction work that is longer than a short story, but shorter than a novel.
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onomatopeoia
Definition
The use of words that imitate sounds.
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personification
Definition
a type of figurative language in wich a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics
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