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| Story based on actual historical events with fictional characters |
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| a concluding section of any written work |
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| The use of clues to suggest events that will happen later in the plot |
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| The representation of persons in literature/ dynamic characters change and develop/ static characters tend to stay the same |
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| Comparison of two different things using like or as |
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| comparison in which a person, place or thing is reffered to as something else |
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| changing from one state of being to another |
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| established type or category of written work |
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| Narrator appears as the "I" recollecting his or her role in the events of the story |
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| Narrator is not one of the characters, but stands "outside" events and uses third person pronouns |
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| Narrator who is all-knowing about events in the story |
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| a telling of a true or fictional event or sequence of events |
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| (in literature) the challenge or problem that a charcter faces. |
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| Story that is handed down that usually tells an exaggerated or fictional account of a person, place, or thing |
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| a story passed on by word of mouth that is changed by re-telling before being written down. Many folktales involve mythical creatures and magical transformations and usually reflect the culture they originate from. |
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| recurring character, theme, idea, or situation found throughout literature |
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| use of everyday language appropiate to every day speech but not to formal writing |
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| Informal, every day speech |
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| A play(or other written composition) written mainly to amuse the audience by appealing to a sense of superiority over the characters depicted. |
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