Lit terms

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emotional quality of a literary work


clues or hints to help a reader


an interuption in the story to tell an event in the past


variation of a language spoken by people in a region


order of progression in a story


the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character


destinctive use of a language that conveys authors/ narrators personality to a reader


central message of the story

Applied theme

theme conveyed through elements of the story

Point of View

the perspective from which a story is told

Run on sentence

two or more sentences joined without adequate punctuation or connecting words

Fragment sentence

a group of words that is missing either a subject or a verb or doesn't express a complete thought

Subject Verb Agreement

The verb agrees with its subject in person and number

Parallel Structure

the repetition of phrases, clauses, or sentences that have the same grammatical structure