English Terms: Literary Works

An account, story or narrative.

Writing that is about facts or real events.

When an author gives hints about what is to come.

A spoken or written account of a person, object, or event.

A literary work in the form of a letter of series of letters.

A short entertaining account of some happening, usually personal or biographical.

A long story of the adventures and victories of a hero.

The act of persuading or seeking to convince.

A detailed description or account of a person's life.

When the speaker tries to shame someone else into adopting a particular point of view.

A sudden drop from the important thought to the common or simple, sometimes done to be funny.

 A device used to introduce background information about events, settings, and characters.

A made up story.

An incompatibility between two or more characters.

A story from the past that is believed by many people but can't be proven to be true.