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Round Character

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Highly developed character with many traits

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Character

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Individuals who participate in the action of literary work

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Flat character

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A character that exhibits few traits, not well developed, we know very little about them

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Static Character

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A character that stays the same throughout the whole story

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Dynamic character

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One who changes throughout the story

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Direct characterization

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When the writer tells you exactly what that character is like

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Indirect characterization

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What others say about them, what the character says, physical appearance, what the character does

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Internal conflict

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One that occurs within a character

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External conflict

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Character in conflict with another force, or with another character

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Plot

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The sequence of events in a story

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Setting

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Time and place of the action in a work of literature

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Theme

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Is an under laying message about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader. Must be inferred

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Illusion

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Indirect reference to a famous, person, place, event, or literary work

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Diction

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Writer or speakers choice of words and how they arranged their sentences

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Foreshadowing

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A writers use of hints or clues to suggest events that will occur later in the story

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Protagonist

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Main character in a work literature who is involved in the central conflict

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Antagonist

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Principal force or character in opposition to the protagonist

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Tone

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The attitude a writer takes toward a subject

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Foil

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Character who provides a striking contrast to another character

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First person point of view

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The narror

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3rd person omniscient

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Now all the thoughts and feelings of all characters. All knowing narrater

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3rd limited

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Narrater not a person in a story, knows 1 person

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Verbal irony

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Speaker says one thing but means another

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Situational irony

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What actually happens is the opposite of what was expected

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Dramatic irony

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When the audience knows something important that the character does not know

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Climax

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Highest point of intensity in a story

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Resolution

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How the story ends

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Symbol

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Person place or thing that stands for something other than it self

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Flashback

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When the author interrupts a story to present event that occurred at a previous time

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Imagery

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Language that appeals to the senses.

Taste,smell,sight,touch, hear

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Simile

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Comparison using the word like or as

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Metaphor

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Comparison not using like or as

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Paradox

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Seemingly contradictory statement that suggests the truth

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Suspense

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Uncertainty or anxiety about what’s gunna happen next in the story

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration

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Rising action

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When conflict develops and the story builds to climax and complications arise

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Falling action

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After climax and shows importance of decision made in climax

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Alliteration

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Repition of constant sounds at the begging of words

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Assorance

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Repition of vowels

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Onomontopia

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Words that are sounds

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Mood

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Feeling or atmosphere the author creates for the reader

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Personification

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When human like qualities are given to an object