broadest category of literature based on information that is true and real

A rhetorical figure of repetition in which the same word or phrase is repeated in (and usually at the beginning of) successive lines, clauses, or sentences.

declaration that can be proven by evidence

subjective declaration that cannot be proven

declaration containing both fact and opinion

distinctive way in which an author uses language

reason for writing; entertain, inform, persuade, or express an opinion

feeling or atmosphere that author creates through use of setting, objects, details, images and words

reference in a work of literature to a character, place or situation from another work of literature, music, art, history, Bible

word pictures used to evoke emotional response; sensory details that can be seen, heard, touched, tasted, smelled as well as what can be felt internally

main idea or message; can be stated or implied

words used for descriptive effect to imply ideas indirectly-not literally true (metaphor, simile, hyperbole, personification)

implied comparison between two unlike things

figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are directly compared usually using the words "like" or "as"

figure of speech that uses exaggeration to emphasize strong feeling or to create comic or satiric (sarcastic) effects

human characteristics are assigned to nonhuman things

the relationship the narrator has to the story (first person, third person limited, third person omniscient)

the narrator is a character in the story and is referred to as "I"

the narrator reveals thoughts, feelings, and observations of only one character and refers to that character as "he" or "she"

the all knowing narrator is not part of the story

the time and place in which story takes place

object, person, place, or experience that represents something else-usually abstract

the reflection of a writer or speaker's attitude toward the subject

literary composition intended to be given as a public talk

personal recollections, activities and feelings kept daily or at regular intervals

story of a period in a person's life that is usually written from the first person point of view

the account of a person's life written by someone other than the subject

the story of a person's life written by that person from a first person point of view

a relatively short piece of informative nonfiction writing, usually on a single subject

a formal essay which is impersonal and largely factual