Literary Terms

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What do we call the series of related events that make up a story?

A brief story in prose or verse that teaches a moral or gives a practical lesson about how to get along in life is called a ________.

The overall mood or emotion of a work of literature is known as the __________________.

A story with no known author, that originally was passed on from one generation to another by word of mouth is known as a _______________.

The story of a real person\'s life, written or told by another person is called a ____________________.

A character\'s _______________ is any force that drives or moves the character to behave in a particular way.

What do we call the conversation between two or more characters?

\'...And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain\' -Edgar Allan Poe, from \'The Raven\', shows a type of figurative language called __________________.