moral:
a lesson, especially one concerning what is right or prudent, that can be derived from a story, a piece of information, or an experience.onomatopoeia:
words whose sounds echo their meaning used to intensify images.parallelism:
similar grammatical constructions to express related or equally important ideas.parts of speech:
a category that a word is assigned in accordance with its syntactic functionpathos:
an appeal to emotion, and is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response.personification:
figure of speech that gives human qualities to an object, animal, or idea.plot:
the sequence of events in a story; focuses on a central conflict faced by the characters and typically develops in five stages: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution.point of view:
the method of narration used in a short story, novel, narrative poem, or work of nonfiction. First-person, third person omniscient or limited,primary source:
an artifact, a document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, a recording, or any other source of information that was created at the time under study.quotation marks:
punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to set off direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase.refrain:
one or more lines repeated in each stanza of a poemrhetoric:
language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect on its audience, but often regarded as lacking in sincerity or meaningful content.secondary source:
information is one that was created later by someone who did not experience first-hand or participate in the events or conditions you're researching.setting:
the place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place.simile:
figure of speech that compares two unlike things using like or assoliloquy:
an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.stanza:
a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.theme:
a central idea or underlying message about life or human nature that the writer wants the reader to understandtone:
the attitude the writer takes toward a subject.verse:
writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme.