Final

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is the act of creating and describing characters in literature.

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Characterization

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conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.

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Dialogue

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a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.

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Genre

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the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.

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Plot

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the position from which something or someone is observed.

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point of veiw

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is the way in which an author writes and/or tells a story.

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Style

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is the use of words or images to symbolize specific concepts, people, objects, or events.

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Symbolism

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the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person’s thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.

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Theme

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First Person - In this point of view, a character (typically the protagonist, but not always) is telling the story. …
Second Person - In this point of view, the author uses a narrator to speak to the reader. …
Third Person - In this point of view, an external narrator is telling the story.

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Types of Narration

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a point of view (who is telling a story) where the story is narrated by one character at a time.

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First person narrative

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is a story in which writers express the main character’s actions and thoughts using the personal pronoun “you” to address the reader.

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Second person narrative

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the narrator exists outside the events of the story, and relates the actions of the characters by referring to their names or by the third-person pronouns he, she, or they.

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Third person narrative

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the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

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Irony

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a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary.

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Antagonist

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is a main character in a story who may lack some conventional heroic qualities and attributes, such as idealism, courage, and morality.

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anti hero

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is an idea, symbol, pattern, or character-type, in a story. It’s any story element that appears again and again in stories from cultures around the world and symbolizes something universal in the human experience.

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Archetype

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is a literary device that gives human characteristics to nonhuman things or inanimate objects.

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personification

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the protagonist drives the story forward by pursuing a goal. The protagonist of a story is sometimes called the main character. The protagonist of a story is opposed by an antagonist

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protagonist

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is the most intense moment within a story, marking a turning point for the protagonist as they confront the main conflict.

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climax

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the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.

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Denouement

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is a plot device used when a seemingly unsolvable conflict or impossible problem is solved by the sudden appearance of an unexpected person, object, or event.

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Deus Ex machina

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is an element of literature that introduces the key background information of a narrative.

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Exposition

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A story in which another story is enclosed or embedded as a ‘tale within the tale’, or which contains several such tales

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Frame narrative

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a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

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Metaphor

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a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox ).

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simile

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is a Genre of magical story, usually originating in folklore

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fairy tale

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In its purest form, classicism is an aesthetic attitude dependent on principles based in the culture, art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome, with the emphasis on form, simplicity, proportion, clarity of structure, perfection, restrained emotion, as well as explicit appeal to the intellect.

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Classicism

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a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual.

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Romanticism

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was a German poet, fiction writer, translator, and critic. He was one of the founding fathers of the Romantic movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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Ludwig Tieck