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Fiction

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Anything made up or imagined

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Novel

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Long work of fiction

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Short story

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Brief work of fiction

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Characters

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People who take part in the action of the story

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Main characters

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Most important characters

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Minor characters

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Less important characters

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Theme

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Pain idea

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Setting

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Event of a story in a particular time and place

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Plot

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Chain of related events that make up a story

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Conflict

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The major problem of the plot

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Exposition

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Background information provided at the beginning of a story

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Rising action

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Continual complexity and intensity of plot and characters

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Climax

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Peak of intensity in the story

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Falling action

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Subsiding of intensity in the story

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Resolution

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Final part of a story

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Contrast

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Finding difference between two things

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Nonfiction

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Writing that deals with real fiction, people, places, facts, and events

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Audience

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The person/s for whom he or she is watching

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Point of view

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The way a writer tells a story

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Cause

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The reason why another event happens

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Cause

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The reason why another event happened.

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Characterization

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The way a writer creates a story

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Alliteration

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Repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of words

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds with in words

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Onomatopoeia

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The use of words that imitate sounds

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Rhyme

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Repetition of sounds at the end of words

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Rhythm

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The pattern of accented and I accented syllables in a line

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Free verse

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Rhythm that resembles the patterns of everyday speech

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Imagery

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Words that helps readers see, hear, taste, feel, and smell things being discribed

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Figurative language

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Language that describes things in a fresh new way

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Simile

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Compares two dissimilar things using the words like or as

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Metaphor

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A direct comparison of unlike things

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Personification

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Gives human qualities to an animal, object, or idea

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Visualize

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Picture in your mind images described by writer

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Suspense

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Tension or excitement in a plot

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Mood

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The feeling or attitude the writer creates in the reader

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Irony

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Occurs when a character or reader expects 1 thing to happen but something entirely different occurs

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Foreshadowing

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Writer’s use of hints or clues to indicate events that will happen

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Dialect

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The variety of language spoken in 1 place by a group of people

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Interior monologue

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Inside thoughts

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