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Character

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A person or an animal in a story, play, or other literary work.

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Characterization

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the means by which writers reveal characters

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Conflict

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the central problem that the story revolves around

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Internal Conflict

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conflict with a person

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External Conflict

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conflict with character and something/one else

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Setting

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the time and place where a story takes place

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dynamic or round

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characters that change

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static or flat

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characters that don’t change

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character trait

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the quality that a character exibits

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Character motivation

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is the reason he she takes a particular action

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antagonist

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bad

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Protagonist

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good

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Sequence

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Every story is made up of a sequence or and order of events

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Author’s Style

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Literary elements that describe the ways that the author uses words

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Author’s Purpose

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Reason and author decides to write about a specific topic. to inform, persuade entertain or explain his ideas to the reader

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Paraphrase

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is the restatement of the meaning of a text or passage using other words

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Personification

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giving non human objects human characteristics

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alliteration

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the occurrence of the same later

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Hyberbole

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an exaggeration

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onomatopeia

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sounds to things

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simile

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Contrasting to seemingly different things to enhance the meaning of the situation or theme using like or as

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Extended metaphor

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Comparison of two unlike things that continue throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph

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metaphor

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Contrasting to seeming different things to enhance the meaning of a situation or them without like or as

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Figurative language

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use of words to express meaning beyond the literal meaning of the words themselves.
Metaphor simile hyperbole alliteration personification. onomatopoeia

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Literal language

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word that do not deviate from the defined meaninf

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meter

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pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

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rhyme

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identify in sound of some part, especially the end

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Stanza-

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a smaller unit within a poem or verse or averse in a song

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Theme

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The underlying focous of a story. they want the reader to discover

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symbol

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something specific is used to represent something abstract

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Dramatic irony

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The reader/observers knows something that the character in the text does not

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Situational irony

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Difference between what appears to be and what actually is true “surprise ending”

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Verbal irony

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When a character says something but means the exact opposite

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allusion

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a brief and indirect reference to a person place think of idea od historical culteral literat or political significanxw

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Words in context

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help with context clues

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Denotation

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dictionary or literal meaning

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connotation

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meaning that is implied by a word

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sarcasm

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mock with often satrical or ironic remarks with a purpose to amuse of hurt

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diction

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word choice

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syntax

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the grammatical arrangement of words for effect

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imagery

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vivid appeals to the senses

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details facts that are included or omitted

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details

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tone

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speaker or narrator feels towards the subject not the reader

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mood

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what the reader feels towards the subject of a story

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imagery

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this is a set of mental pictures made with the use of figurative language

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bias

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prejudice in favor of or against one thing

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opinion

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states something BELIEVED To have occured to exist od to be true

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fact

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states something that HAPPENs

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Editorial

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newspaper article written by ediror ro igve an opnion

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narrator

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the person who recounts the events of a navel of narative poem

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point of view

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voice in which the story is told.(3)

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1st person

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I us we

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2nd

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you

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3rd

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he she them

55
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flashback

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and interssuption to insert past events

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foreshadowing

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hits that things will happen with clues

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resolution (denouement

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how the story ends

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falling action

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loose ends are tied ip

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climax

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character makes decision and defined them and the outcome of the story

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rising action

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events leading up to the climax

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exposition

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information that is necessary to help understand the conflict

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plot

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the series of events that muke up a story of drama

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