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Literature Vocabulary - Elementary

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  • A book that has a list of words in alphabetical order and explains their meanings, or gives a word for them in another language
    dictionary
  • The main character in a story
    protagonist
  • a very old story or set of stories from ancient times, not always true, that people tell about a famous event or person
    legend
  • Conversation that is written for a book, play, or film
    dialogue
  • a sequence of books having certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group
    series
  • A book that gives you practical instructions on how to do something or how to use something, such as a machine
    manual
  • The villain in a story
    antagonist
  • The person who writes a book
    author/writer
  • A novel in the form of comic strips
    graphic novel
  • The period of time and place where the story takes place
    setting
  • A book with recipes which help you to cook
    cookbook
  • the main events of the story
    plot
  • Writing in which the words are arranged in separate lines, often ending in rhyme
    poetry/poem
  • A book that gives information for visitors about a place, a city or country, etc.
    guidebook
  • Books that tell real information
    non-fiction
  • One of the people in the story
    character
  • Books that tell made up stories.
    fiction
  • A book about a person's life, written by that person
    autobiography
  • A story that is considered sacred which explains how the world was created and why certain things happened. Different cultures have different types of them and many of them are very ancient
    myth
  • One part of a book that is a few pages long
    chapter
  • A long, made-up story book—maybe 100 or even 700 pages long
    novel
  • Stories like Cinderella, Snow White and Rapunzel
    fairy tale
  • A story that teaches us a moral lesson
    fable
  • A book that continues the story from a previous book
    sequel
  • A series of three books written about the same situation or characters, forming a continuous story
    trilogy
  • A type of thin book with large pages and a paper cover that contains articles and photographs and is published every week or month
    magazine
  • A book that has texts and exercises for a school or college course
    textbook
  • The kind of story that people act out on a stage.
    play
  • A book containing maps
    atlas
  • The name of a book
    title