literary terms

Written communication from person to another

• media accounts

• moral

• letters

• myth

Is writing that tells a story

• narration

• myth

• moral

• letters

A fictional tale that explains the actions of gods or heros or the origins of element of nature

• moral

• motive

• narration

• myth

Are reports, explanations, opinions, or descriptions written for television, radio, newspapers, and magazines

• metaphor

• media accounts

• letters

• moral

a reason that explains or partially explains a character's thoughts, feeling, actions or speech

• motive

• letters

• metaphor

• myth

is a figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else

• motive

• moral

• media accounts

• metaphor

a lesson taught by a literary work

• myth

• motive

• moral

• media accounts

A figure of speech that links two opposite or opposite or contradictory words

• oxymoron

• oral tradition

• novella

• noval

is a story..Either can be fiction or nonfiction

• narrator

• nonfiction

• novel

• narrative

the passing of songs, stories, and poems from generation to generation by word of mouth

• oxymoron

• novella

• oral tradition

• novel