Creative Writing - Middle School

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  1. action
    something done (usually as opposed to something said)
  2. alliteration
    use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
  3. allusion
    passing reference or indirect mention
  4. antagonist
    someone who offers opposition
  5. audience
    the part of the general public interested in something
  6. brainstorm
    try to solve a problem by thinking intensely about it
  7. character
    an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction
  8. characterization
    a vivid verbal description
  9. characterize
    describe or portray the qualities or peculiarities of
  10. climax
    the decisive moment in a novel or play
  11. conflict
    a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests
  12. description
    the act of depicting something
  13. develop
    be gradually disclosed or unfolded
  14. dialogue
    a conversation between two persons
  15. diction
    the manner in which something is expressed in words
  16. drama
    the literary genre of works intended for the theater
  17. exposition
    an account that sets forth the intent of a story
  18. fantasy
    imagination unrestricted by reality
  19. fiction
    a literary work based on the imagination
  20. figure of speech
    language used in a nonliteral sense
  21. first person
    pronouns and verbs used to refer to the speaker
  22. foreshadowing
    the act of providing vague advance indications
  23. genre
    a class of art having a characteristic form or technique
  24. imagination
    the ability to form mental pictures of things or events
  25. inspiration
    arousal of the mind to unusual activity or creativity
  26. irony
    incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
  27. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  28. mood
    the prevailing psychological state
  29. mystery
    a story about a crime presented as a novel or play or movie
  30. narration
    a telling of a story in writing, drama, or cinema
  31. narrative
    an account that tells the particulars of an act or event
  32. narrator
    someone who tells a story
  33. novel
    an extended fictional work in prose
  34. novella
    a short novel
  35. personification
    representing an abstract quality or idea as a human
  36. plot
    the story that is told, as in a novel, play, movie, etc.
  37. plot element
    a component or element of the plot of a story
  38. poem
    a composition in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines
  39. poetry
    literature in metrical form
  40. point of view
    a mental position from which things are perceived
  41. protagonist
    the principal character in a work of fiction
  42. realism
    artistic movement that represents the world accurately
  43. rhyme
    correspondence in the final sounds of two or more lines
  44. science fiction
    genre involving the imagined impact of technology on society
  45. script
    a written version of a play or other dramatic composition
  46. sensory
    involving or derived from the senses
  47. setting
    the context and environment in which something is situated
  48. short story
    a brief but fully developed prose narrative
  49. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
  50. stanza
    a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
  51. style
    a mode of expression typical of a person, group, or period
  52. suspense
    excited anticipation of an approaching climax
  53. symbol
    something visible that represents something invisible
  54. symbolism
    the practice of investing things with arbitrary meaning
  55. tension
    a balance between opposing elements or tendencies
  56. theme
    a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary work
  57. third person
    pronouns referring to people besides the speaker or listener
  58. tone
    a quality that reveals the attitudes of the author
  59. verse
    literature in metrical form
  60. writer's block
    an inability to write
Created on Mon Jan 23 15:35:41 EST 2017 (updated Wed Mar 29 15:40:33 EDT 2017)

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