**10th Grade Lit Terms 2:2

An account of a person’s life written by that person.

• autobiography

• biography

• personal experience narrative

• pseudonym

An account of someone’s life written by someone else.

• biography

• autobiography

• first person

• third person

A long narrative poem, which related the heroic deeds on an unparalleled hero.

• epic

• ballad

• narrative

• dystopia

A composition in verse or prose presenting a story in pantomime or dialogue

• drama

• short story

• ballad

• epic

A fictitious name used to conceal someone's real name.

• pseudonym

• spoonerism

• anagram

• synecdoche

A short and interesting story, or an amusing event, often proposed to support or demonstrate some point, and to make the audience laugh.

• anecdote

• analogy

• metaphor

• allegory

The feeling a piece of literature arouses in the reader.

• mood

• tone

• omniscient

• suspense

An imagined setting in which everything is unpleasant or bad.

• dystopia

• utopia

• pathetic fallacy

• catharsis

a setting where everything is ideal

• utopia

• dystopia

• allegory

• atmosphere

When the narrator knows about all the character’s thoughts and feelings.

• omniscient

• limited third person

• third person

• connotation