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| is a factual account of events in the life or development of a people, nation, institution or culture. |
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| is writing that tells a story. |
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| is a speech given from a pulpit in a house of worship. |
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| is the act of creating and developing a character. |
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| is a central message or insight into life revealed by a literary work. |
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| is a statement that seems to be contradictory but that actually presents a truth. |
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| is a contrast between what is stated and what is meant, or between what is expected to happen and what actually happens. |
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| is a form of nonfiction in which a person tells his or her own life story. |
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| is a written work expressed orally. |
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| is a formal composition written in the form of a letter addressed to a distant person or group of people. |
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| is a general truth or observation about life, usually stated concisely and pointedly. |
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| is the attribution of human powers and characteristics to something that is not human, such as an object, an aspect of nature, or an abstract idea. |
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| refers to the repeated use of phrases, clauses, or sentences that are similar in structure or meaning. |
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| is poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. |
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| is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or accented syllables. |
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| is the repetition of vowel sounds. |
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| is the repetition of consonant sounds at the end of words or accented syllables. |
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| is anything that stands for or represents something else. |
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| is the rhythmical pattern of a poem determined by the number and types of stresses or beats in each line. |
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| is a brief work of fiction. |
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| expresses the thoughts and feelings of a speaker. |
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| is a story or tale with two or more levels of meaning--a literal level and one or more symbolic levels. |
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| is a repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song. |
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| is the manner in which a writer puts his or her thoughts into words. |
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| is poetry that lacks a regular rhythmical pattern or meter. |
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| is a group of lines in a poem that are considered to be a unit, (couplet, tercet, quatrain, cinquain, sestet, heptastich, octave) |
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| is a contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader knows to be true. |
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| is a struggle between opposing forces. |
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| is a comparison developed over several lines. |
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| is poetry that tells a story. |
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