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Allusion

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Reference to another literary work or art

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Paradox

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Something that doesn’t make sense but looking at closely makes sense

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Dynamic

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Goes through change

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Static

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Does not go through change

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Flat

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Don’t know a lot about character

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Round

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Know a lot about character

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Fryetag’s pyramid

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Story telling structure includes exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement

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Exposition

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Dialogue or description that provides background information about the characters and information

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Inciting incident

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Main problem occurs

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Rising action

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Conflict is further developed

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Climax

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Most exciting point, point of no return

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Falling action

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Events that take place after and are a result of the climax

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Denouement

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The ending

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Situational

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unexpected occur

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Dramatic

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Audience knows something character doesn’t

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Verbal

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Speaker says one thing and means another

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Limited

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Focuses on thoughts and feelings of one single character

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Omniscient

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Focuses on the thoughts and feelings of all or multiple characters

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Satire

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Humorous mocking. Harrison Bergeron, Fahrenheit 451

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Utopia

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An imagined place or state in which everything is perfect

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Dystopia

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An imagined place or state in which everything is bad

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Surveillance

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Monitoring of actions or behaviors

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Panopticon

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Area where everything is visible or able to be monitored

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Heresy

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Belief or opinion contrary to the accepted policy

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Introspection

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The examination or observation of ones own mental and emotional processes

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Critical thinking

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A way of analyzing a claim to decide whether it is true of partially true

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Inculcate

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Implant by repeated statement or reprimand punishment

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Sociology

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Study of development,structure, functioning of human society

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Philosophy

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Study of fundamental nature of knowledge, reality and existence especially when considered as an academic discipline

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Denounce

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To report someone has done something bad

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Trade journal

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Magazine for trade

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Censorship

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Removing altering or destroying various forms of expression or removing limiting access to them

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Dissident

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Someone who goes against the government or those in power

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Epiphany

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Sudden realization

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Foil

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A character is different from another character in at least one way

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Liberal arts college

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A collage with an emphasis on non-professional non technical non vocational disciplines in which students were exposed to a wide range of academic subjects

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Confidante

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A person with whom one shares a secret or private matter, trusting them not to repeat to others

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Tag name

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Symbolic name
Montag = stationary company
Faber = pencil company

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Stream of consciousness

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A narrative that features the thoughts as they play out and flow continuously in a characters head

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Scapegoat

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A person who is unfairly blamed for something that others have done

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Mentor

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An experienced and trusted advisor

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Omnipotence

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State of being all powerful

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Omnipresence

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State of being everywhere at once

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Omniscience

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State of being all knowing

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Memoir

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A historical account or biography written from personal knowledge

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Narrater

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Person who tells a story

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Superstition

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Belief in supernatural casualty

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Portent

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Sign of something bad

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Prose

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Ordinary form of spoken or written language without poetic structures

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Stanza

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A unified group of lines in poetry usually divided by a blank line

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Nostalgia

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Bittersweet longing for the past

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Empathy

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Ability to understand and share the feelings of another

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Sympathy

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Feeling of pit and sorrow for someone else’s misfortune

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Roman a clef

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A coming of age story, marigold, scarlet ibis

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Tone

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Authors attitude towards subject

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Pathetic fallacy

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Weather mirrors characters emotions

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Motif

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Idea that repeats itself

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Fallibility

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Philosophical theory that says people can make mistakes even when they think they didn’t. Now way to have absolute final knowledge

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Infallibility

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Quality of never making an error

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Cliché

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Phrase that is overused

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Aside

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Short remark spoken by one character to another that other characters on stage are not supposed to hear

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Soliloquy

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Longer speech in which a character utters thoughts aloud

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Pun

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Play on words. Include words that sound the same but have different meanings

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Comic relief

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Humor or a humorous scene that appears immediately before of immediately after a serious scene of set of lines

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Apostrophe

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Figure of speech in which the speaker directly addresses an absent person or a personified quality object or idea

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Oxymoron

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Two words placed side by side that seem to be contradictory

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Antithesis

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Two words placed side by side or close by each other that are opposite

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Footnote

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Information written at the bottom of a page in a text meant to guide the reader