1) Point of View- the vantage point from which a story is told (First person...character in the story uses I to tell his/her view)
2) Author's Purpose-To inform, to persuade, to express feelings or to entertain.
3) Fable-a very brief story written in prose or verse that teaches a moral, a practical lesson on how to succeed in life
4) Fantasy-imaginative writing that carries the reader into an invented world where the laws of nature as we know them do not operate
5) Folktale-a story with no known author, originally passed on from one generation to another by word of mouth
6) Flashback-a scene that breaks the normal time order of the plot to show a past event.
7) Foreshadowing-the use of clues or hints to suggest events that will occur later in the plot
8) Irony-a contrast between what is expected and what really happens
9) Legend-a story, usually based on come historical fact that has been handed down from one generation to the next
10) Mood-the overall emotion created by a work of literature
11) Novel- a long fictional story that is usually more than one hundred book pages in length
12) Oral Tradition-a collection of folktales, songs and poems that have been passed on orally from generation to generation
13) Prose-any writing that is not poetry
14) Short Story-a fictional prose narrative that is about five to twenty book pages
15) Suspense-the anxious curiosity the reader feels about what will happen next in a story
16) Symbol-a person, a place, a thing, or an event that has its own meaning and stands for something beyond itself as well.
17) Tall Tale-an exaggerated, fanciful story that gets "taller and taller" or more and more far-fetched, the more it is told and retold
18) Theme-a truth about life revealed in a work of literature
19) Tone-The attitude a writer takes toward an audience, a subject, or a character
20) Prior Knowledge-prior means 'earlier' or 'previous'. It is what you know about a subject when you're at the starting line---before you read a selection (Recalling experiences you've had, as well as what you've learned about the subject of the text
