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Act
A major division of a play. A play may be subdivided into many acts.
Alliteration
The repetition of constant sounds, most often found at the beginning of words and syllables.
Allusion
A reference in a work of literature to a well known character, please, or situations in history from another work of literature, music, or art.
Antagonist
A person or force that opposes the protagonist in fiction
Anthropomorphism
Giving human characteristics to an animal or object
Assonance
The repetition of vowel sounds especially in a line of poetry
Authors purpose
The intention of the writer
Autobiography
The story f a persons life written by that person
Ballad
A short song or poem
Biography
A story of a persons life written by someone else
Character
A person or creature in a literary work
Characterization
The methods a writer uses to develop the personality of a character
Climax
The point of greatest interest or suspense in a narrative
Comedy
A type of drama that is humorous
Conflict
The central struggle between opposing forces
Consonance
The repetition of identical or similar end or intermediate consonant sounds
Couplet
Two successive lines of verse that form a unit and usually rhyme.
Description
Writing that creates an impression of a setting, a person, an animal, an object, or an event by appealing to one of the 5 senses.
Dialect
A variation of language spoken by a particular group or by many people within a geographical region
Dialogue
Conversation between characters
