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Fiction

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Term	Definition
fable	A story that usually uses animals to teach a valuable life lesson, a moral. This story is typically short and states its moral at the very end.
folktale	A story that gets passed on from generation to generation. True folktales do not have a single author. They develop as different people tell them over time. As such, they are creations of “the folk,” or the people.
legend	A story or group of stories that have been handed down from a time long ago and that many people in a society know but cannot prove to be true or untrue.
mythology (myth)	Stories about how the world was created and why certain things happen. Myths tell of gods, heroes, and events that a group believes, or at one time believed, to be real.
tall tales	A story that is unlikely to be true and often having things that are clearly exaggerated.
theme	The message or the lesson that the author wants you to learn from the story. The theme is usually unsaid by the author. But we can infer it or figure it out.
character	Any person, animal, or figure represented in a literary work.
climax	The point of highest dramatic interest or a major turning point in the story.
conflict	The tension/problem in the story.
setting	The time and place of the story.
falling action	The period of time in a story that follows the climax and leads to the resolution (solution).
historical setting	A specific time period or a historical event.
cultural setting	The customs, beliefs, values, and traditions of a particular society or group during a specific time period.
plot	The series of events that make up a story. Plots have five main parts that always take place in the same order: beginning (where the setting and characters are introduced), rising action, climax (the most exciting part), falling action, and resolution.
relationship	A connection of some kind.
resolution	The solution to a complicated issue.
rising action	How the events in a story build excitement until they reach their most exciting point (called the "climax").
event	Something that happens or takes place.
narrator	Someone who tells the story.
first-person point of view	The author uses one character to tell the story through their own personal experiences, feelings, and opinions. The author uses words such as 'I,' 'me,' 'my,' 'mine,' 'us,' 'our,' 'we'.
third-person point of view	The author uses a narrator to tell the story, either through the eyes of another character or from the perspective of a storyteller who doesn't appear in the story at all. The author uses words such as 'he,' 'she,' 'they,' 'them'.
graphic feature	Pictures, visual aids, or other images within a text used to support the author's purpose and message (e.g. graphs, diagrams, charts, timelines, bullet points)
print	The text appearing in a book, newspaper, or other printed publication.
text structure	The way authors organize information in text.
anecdote	The telling of a brief story about something interesting or funny in a person's life.
figurative language	A word or phrase that does not have its normal everyday, literal meaning.
hyperbole	An exaggeration used for emphasis or humor.
imagery	When a writer uses very descriptive language to appeal to all of your senses.
literal language	Means exactly what is written
metaphor	A figure of speech that directly compares two different things WITHOUT using the word "like" or "as".
simile	A figure of speech that directly compares two different things using the word "like" or "as".
sound device	Special tools the poet can use to create certain effects in the poem to convey and reinforce meaning through sound. The four most common sound devices are repetition, rhyme, alliteration, and assonance.
stereotyping	Overgeneralizations of groups.
voice	The author's tone or attitude toward a subject in a text.
foreshadow	When the author gives you hints about what will happen later on in the story. These clues help you predict what might happen.
suspense	Used when authors want readers to remain highly anxious about what is going to happen next.

Created by: jacontreras

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