Short Story Vocab

a narrative folk song that highlights cultural normsand values

poetry that does not contain regular patterns or rhythmor rhyme.

The conversation between characters

sog-like poem wrote mainly 2 express the feelings of emotions, thought from a particular person

a collection of events that tells a story

a character in a story/poem who deceives, frustrates, or protagonist, in some way.

Descriptive or figurative language in a literary work

the final outcome of the main complication in a play or story

A form of extended metaphor in which objects, persons,and actions in a narrative

a short poem,verse that seeks to ridicule a thoughtor event, usually with witticism or sarcasm.

A recurring subject, theme, or idea in a literary work

Definition; meaning of a word

Specific words used by writer

a style of poetry defined as a complete thoughtwritten in two lines with rhyming ends

The subtle presence of a positive or negative approach toward atopic

he generally accepted importance of a workrepresenting a given culture

Instead of perfect or identical sounds or rhyme,it is the repetition of near or similar sounds

A pattern of end rhymes in a poem.

device used in literature to presentaction that occurred before current time of the story

A narrative device, often used at the start of a work that provides necessary background info

The prevailing emotions or atmosphere of a workderived from literary devices

Told from the p.o.v. of an outside narrator

One or more letters occurring as a bound form attachedto the beginning, end, or base of a word

repetition of an identical or similarly accentedsound or sounds in a work.

This is a relatively rare point of view and is difficult to sustain.

A variety of a language distinct from the standard variety in pronunciation, grammar, or vocab

The repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words

An exaggeration or overstatement

In poetry it means moving over from one line to anotherwithout a terminating punctuation mark

four-line stanza

The ordering of words into meaningful verbal patternssuch as phrases, clauses, and sentences

a type of literature

poem that tells a story (i.e. epics, ballads, andmetrical romances)

A judgment based on reasoning rather than on a direct orexplicit statement

The range of associations b/w a word or a phrase

a distinctive poetic style that uses system orpattern of metrical structure

the main character or lead figure

An implied or indirect reference in literature to a familiarperson, place, or event