Vocabulary (Continued) For Friday's Test!

25) Rhyme-The repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them.
26) Rhythm-A musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of other sound patterns.
27) Setting-The time and place of a story, a poem, or a play.
28) Short Story-A fictional prose narrative that is about five to twenty book pages long.
29) Simile-A comparison between two unlike things using a word such as like, as, than or resembles.
30) Speaker- The voice talking to us in a poem.
31) Stanza-In a poem, a group of lines that form a unit.
32) Suspense-The anxious curiosity the reader feels about which will happen next in the story.
33) Symbol-A person, a place, a thing, or an event that has its own meaning and stands for something beyond itself as well.
34) Tall Tale-An exaggerated, fanciful story that gets "taller and taller," or more and more far-fetched, the more it is told and retold.
35)Theme-A truth about life revealed in a work of literature.
36)Tone-The attitude a writer takes toward an audience, a subject, or a character.