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This glossary contains definitions for words used throughout the website.  If you have a suggestion of a word that should be included here, please e-mail me at tim@mr-anderson.com.



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language

:

The systematic use of sounds, signs and symbols as a method of communication; in writing, the choice of words used to convey meaning.

limerick

:
a five-line nonsense poem, mostly in anapest, rhyme scheme aabba. Lines one, two, and five have three feet, but lines three and four have only two feet.

limited point of view

:
The vantage point in which a narrator tells the story in the third person but often confines himself or herself to what is experienced, thought and felt by a single or limited number of characters.

literal meaning

:
The actual meaning of a word or a phrase.

literary element

:
A component of a piece of literature such as plot or setting in a story.