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an opinion that prevents objective (or fair) consideration of an issue or situation. ex: Even though the dress looked horrible on me, my mom said I looked lovely because she was BIASED.

a short moral story (often with animal characters)

a generalized belief about a group of people

told from the narrator's point of view, using "I"

The narrator tells a listener what he/she has done or said, using the personal pronoun "you." This point of view is rare. An example of this is: Lemony Snicket, "The book you are holding in your hands is extremely dangerous. If the wrong people see you with this objectionable autobiography, the results could be disasterous."

a short poem with fourteen lines, usually ten-syllable rhyming lines, divided into two, three, or four sections

Point of view in which the narrator is outside the action and refers to characters as he or she. Ex: "Harry didn't know what he was getting himself into as he walked up the big spooky stairs."

opinion based on one's frame of reference and perspective

A device in literature where an object represents an idea.

See image

a worn-out idea or overused expression.

a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable

a unit of poetic meter (usually one stressed and one unstressed syllables). These terms are used for the metric feet and line lengths most common in English poetry:

Arch- as in top, most or chief. A character type that is found in the literature of many cultures. Example: Hero is an archetype that many characters use... think of ....Spiderman, Batman, Superman are all heroes.

The narrator is an all-knowing outsider who can enter the minds of more than one of the characters. Omni-All