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| The lesson about life that a story teaches you; the author's message |
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| The beginning of a story when the setting and characters are introduced |
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| The turning point of action when everything changes; it happens near the end and is often violent |
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| The final outcome or solution to the story |
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| How a character changes throughout a story |
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| A character that never changes |
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| A character that changes throughout the story |
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| A character or force that opposes the main character |
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| To hint or suggest beforehand |
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| Category of art or literature, such as fiction, fantasy or poetry |
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| Writing with imaginary characters and events |
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| Writing with real characters and events |
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| The angle of perspective from which the story is told |
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| When a story is told using "I" |
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| When a story is told using "he, she or they" |
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| When a writer says exactly what he or she means |
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| Writing that has a meaning beyond the words written and should be interpreted imaginatively |
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| A device used to create figurative language, such as simile, metaphor, personification and hyperbole |
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| A comparison between two unlike things using like, as or than |
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| A comparison between two unlike things without using like, as or than |
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| Giving human qualities to an animal, idea or inanimate object |
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| Over-exaggeration to creat humor or emphasize a point |
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| The feeling created in the reader by a piece of writing |
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| A word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the five senses |
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| A group of lines in a poem |
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| Devices related to the sound of language, such as rhyme, alliteration, assonance and onomatopoeia |
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| Rhyme at the end of lines |
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| A regular pattern of end rhyme, marked by lower case letters |
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| Repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of words |
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| Repetition of a vowel sound |
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| The use of words that imitate sounds |
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| Anything that stands for or represents something else |
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| Words that create a picture in your mind |
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