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Figurative Language: Using words or phrases in a non-literal meaning. Diction: The choice and use of words and phrases. Dialect: A particular form of a language that is peculiar ti a specific region or social group. Personification: Giving human qualities to inanimate objects. When thought women talks to the river. "I wandered lonely as a cloud" Imagery: All objects and qualities of sense or Metafiction - Fiction about fiction. Fiction that will "self-consciously examine the nature and status of fiction itself" Fiction that draws attention to the act of writing to question the relationship between fiction and fact. Social Model: environment needs to change not the person, person with disability is expert, disability is located in environment. Charity Model: people with disability need help not functioning adults, helpless, you feel good about yourself if you don’t have disability. Medical Model: disability located in the body, doctor is expert, disability needs to be cured. Accessible: Something all body types can use. Norms: rules of the society. Inclusion: Including everyone regardless of their disability, ability, acknowledging everyone. Couplet: 2-line stanza Sestet: 6-line stanza Quatrain: 4-line stanza Octave: 8-line stanza Stanza: group of line that form a unit in poem. Sonnet: a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes. Iambic Pentameter: It is a line of five beats, unstressed syllable followed by stressed. Tragedy: Serious action imitated through drama, sorrowful events occur. Mystery: problems need to be solved, realistic setting and characters. Quest: story in which hero goes to mission to find something, solve mystery, hero fights obstacles and battles villion. Intersectionality: referred originally to the intersection of race and gender, but widened to include sexuality, disability, class, nationality, etc. Inciting incident: Event that begins the action, signal beginning of main conflict, hooks readers into story. Detective fiction: crime fiction, detective investigates a crime, murder. Indirect Characterization: Narrator reveals character traits through action, speech.

Culture: the way we live and how we structure our lives Superscrips: those individuals whose inspirational stories of courage and dedication, and hard work prove that it can be done, that one can defy the odds and accomplish the impossible. Stereotype: a set idea that people have about what someone or something is like. Theme: A central idea of the writing. refers to the ideas, values, and feelings that are developed or questioned in a literary text Melodrama: Genre for Emotional exaggeration, Sentimentalism and affect Fratag’s pyramind Exposition: Bg info about plot, characters, setting. Rising action: series of conflicts in the story that will lead to climax Climax: Event rising action builds up to and falling action follows. Falling action: All of the action, which follow the climax Resolution: The conclusion of the main conflict Denouement: tying up loose ends. Happily, ever after. Authoritative Narration: fully trust the narrator, all-knowing, confident in knowledge Fallible Narration: unintentionally withholds or misinterprets info.

Unreliable Narration: intentionally or unconsciously withholds or misinterprets Self Reflexive Narration: keeps reminding the reader that they are narrating a story Plot: the order in which those events are arranged or manipulated in the text (circular, linear, non-linear) Story: the chronological order of events First person-Using I to write story. Third person: he, she, it, they instead of I. Limited: tells story through one character POV. Omniscient: narrator has unlimited knowledge and can describe every character’s thoughts. Second person-using you, yours End-Stopped: line ends with punctuation Enjambment: line does not end in punctuation, meaning that it continues Caesuras: large punctuation break in the middle of the line Internal Rhyme: happens within a line Rhythm: counting beats Poetry - a form of literary art using the aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language (e.g. metre) to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic meaning - concentrated language; stripped down language; language forced to do a lot of work Allegory: A story with a literal meaning and symbolic meaning. Metaphor: Comparing two unlike things without using like or as. Narrative Poem: A poem that tells a story. Ex: Goblin Market. Irony: When what is said and what is meant is different....