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Alliteration
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repetition of sounds
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Allusion
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reference to a well known person, place, event, literary work, or art
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Antagonist
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the enemy in a story
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Character
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a person in a story that is involved
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Concrete Poem
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a poem shaped in the shape of which it is talking about
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Conflict
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opposition between characters, a character and his society, a character and himself, or a character and nature
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Dialogue
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talking between two or more people, items
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Extended Metaphor
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a metaphor that continues on for a while after its first "appearance"
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Figurative Language
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speech which is not meant to be taken literally
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Foreshadowing
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showing a glipse to the future in writing
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Genre
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a catergory a story falls into
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Free Verse
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a poem that doesn't rhyme
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Images
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words or phrases that you can "feel" with any of your five senses
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Irony
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expressing something different from and often opposite of the actual words
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Metaphor
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something that is described as though it is something else
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Round Character
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a character that has at least 2 personal traits, you can see all they are, both sides of them
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Simile
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comparison that uses "like" or "as"
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Suspense
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a part in a story where you wonder what might happen next, but the writer doesn't say it yet
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Theme
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underlying idea that ties a story together
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Moral
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the message the author wants you to see
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Motivation
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what pushes a character to do something
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Narrative Poem
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a poem that tells a story from the viewpoint of the writer
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Narrator
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the person telling the story from their view point
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Onomatopoeia
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the use of words that imitate sounds
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Personification
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when something that is not human has human movement or action
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Plot
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the way the story takes place
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Poetry
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the use of less words to describe more
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Point of View
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the way a character sees or thinks
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Prose
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ordinary speech
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Protagonist
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the main character in a book
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Refrain
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holding oneself back
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Repetition
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the use of a phrase, word, sound, clause, or sentence that is used throughout the poem
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Rhyme
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when the ends of words repeat sounds
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Rythm
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the pattern of words to resemble a sound
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Setting
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where the story takes place
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Stanza
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a division of lines
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Symbol
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something that represents something else
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