Unit 5: Craft and Structure Vocabulary

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  1. oral
    using speech rather than writing
  2. perspective
    a way of regarding situations or topics
  3. universal
    of worldwide scope or applicability
  4. moral
    the significance of a story or event
  5. purpose
    an anticipated outcome that guides your planned actions
  6. myth
    a traditional story serving to explain a world view
  7. mythology
    the body of stories associated with a culture or institution
  8. legend
    a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
  9. tall tale
    an improbable (unusual or incredible or fanciful) story
  10. folktale
    a traditional story or legend circulated by word of mouth
  11. fable
    a short moral story
  12. epic
    a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
  13. quest
    the act of searching for something
  14. hero
    the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem
  15. heroine
    the main good female character in a work of fiction
  16. trickster
    a mischievous supernatural being (often a stock character)
  17. personification
    attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
  18. hyperbole
    extravagant exaggeration
  19. dialect
    the usage or vocabulary characteristic of a group of people
  20. theme
    a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary work
  21. imply
    express or state indirectly
  22. repetition
    the continued use of the same word or word pattern
  23. pattern
    a repeated design, structure, or arrangement
  24. archetype
    something that serves as a model
  25. plot
    the story that is told, as in a novel, play, movie, etc.
  26. character
    an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction
  27. idea
    the content of cognition
Created on Fri Feb 05 13:03:03 EST 2021 (updated Fri Feb 12 14:38:19 EST 2021)

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