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Literary Terms Set 2
Mrs. Deneka's Literary Terms
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English
6th Grade
02/24/2011

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Drama
Definition
A story written to be acted in front of an audience.
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Essay
Definition
A short piece of nonfiction prose.
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Fable
Definition
A brief story in prose or verse that teaches a moral, a practice lesson about how to succeed in life.
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Fantasy
Definition
Imaginative writing that carries the reader into an invinted world where the laws of nature as we know them do not operate
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Folk tale
Definition
A story with no known author, orginally passed on from one generation to another by word of mouth.
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Flashback
Definition
Imaginative writing that carries the reader into an invented world where the laws of nature as we know them do not operate.
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Figurative language
Definition
Language that describes one thing in terms of something else and is not literally true.
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Fiction
Definition
A prose (writing) that is made up rather than true.
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Foreshadowing
Definition
The use of clues or hints to suggest events that will occur late rin the plot.
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Free verse
Definition
Poetry that is "free" of a regular meter and rhyme scheme.
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