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A form of literature where objects, people, actions, or events in the story have a deeper meaning and stand for something else. Usually, they are meant to teach a moral lesson or comment on society or politics.
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Allegory
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A written account of another person's life
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Biography
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A form of literature where objects, people, actions, or events in the story have a deeper meaning and stand for something else. Usually, they are meant to teach a moral lesson or comment on society or politics.
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A written account of another person's life
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The written text of a play which includes the dialogue between characters, stage direction, and often other expository information.
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Any story that is the product of imagination rather than a documentation of fact. Characters and events are made up by the author.
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A category used to classify literary works, usually by form, technique, or content (ex. prose, poetry, etc.)
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Nonfiction written primarily to convey factual information (Ex. textbooks, newspapers, reports, brochures, technical manuals)
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The overall structure or shape of a work that frequently follows an established design. It may be a literary type (Ex. narrative, short story, prose) or patterns of meter, lines and rhymes (Ex. stanza, verse)
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Text that includes literary elements and devices usually associated with fiction to report on real events, people, or places. (Ex. travel texts, biography, memoir, essay)
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A story, actual or fictional, expressed orally or in text
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Text that is not fictional and is designed to explain, argue, instruct, or describe rather than entertain. It is based on fact.
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Text that aims to present ideas and provoke an emotion in the readers through use of meter, imagery, and diction. It can be structured and patterned, and usually relies on figurative language.
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A literary approach that ridicules or examines human vice or weakness. Usually it is designed to criticize something in a humorous way.
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The author's method of structuring a text. (Ex. In fiction, this can include flashbacks and foreshadowing. In nonfiction, this can include cause-effect)
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Genre of literature represented by works intended for the stage or meant to be performed by actors; a play
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A literary organizational form that presents the order in which tasks are to be performed. Also called "sequential"
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A trend or pattern of shared beliefs or practices that mark an approach to literature (Ex. Realism, Naturalism, Romanticism, Transcendentalism, etc.)
