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Theme

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The meaning or message behind what you are reading

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Setting

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Time and place

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Plot

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The series of events

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Point of view

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How the story is being told / Perspective [1st(I), 2nd(you),3rd(they) person]

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Antecedent action

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The action before the story(background info)

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Exposition

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Who, what, when, where, and why

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Complication/Initial incident

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What starts the conflict

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Conflict

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The problem the characters are going to face

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Rising action

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Action that brings us to the climax

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Climax

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The highest point of emotional intensity

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Falling action

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Events that lead to the resolution

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Denouement/ Resolution

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The ending to the story

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Antagonist

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The force going against the protagonist

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Protagonist

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The main character

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Comparison

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Look for similarities

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Contrast

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Look for differences

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Round character

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Know a lot about/well-developed characters

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Flat character

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Not well developed/ Don’t know a lot about

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Dynamic character

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A character that changes

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Static character

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A character that stays the same

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Stock character

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typical/cliche characters

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Stereotype

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societal views pushed on a person

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Dramatic irony

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The viewer/reader is aware of something the character is not

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Verbal irony

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When speech doesn’t match the situation

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Situational irony

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Character tries to do something but ends up doing the opposite

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Simile

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A comparison between two unlike things using like or as

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Metaphor

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Comparing two things without using like or as

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Personification

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Giving human characteristics to a nonhuman thing

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Paradox

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A statement that contradicts itself/ at first does not make sense

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Understatement

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The presentation of something as being less important than it is

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Litotes

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An ironic understatement

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Hyperbole

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exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

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Onomatopoeia

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Sound words that are spelled the way they sound (“Buzz”)

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Alliteration

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Multiple words starting with the same letter or sound

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Consonance

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Repetition of consonant sounds in a sentence

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds in a sentence

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Allusion

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A reference to another piece of literature

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Verisimilitude

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Trying to add realism or realistic qualities to something

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Foreshadowing

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To predict something in the future

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Symbol

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Something used to represent something else

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Prose

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Writing without structure

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Stanza

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A group of words or lines in poetry

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Free verse poetry

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Poetry that allows you to write freely

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Aside

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Express thought or emotion to the audience and not the characters

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Soliloquy

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Thoughts or expressions that are given only by a single character

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Monologue

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A long uninterrupted speech given by a single character

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Inference (n.) / Infer (v.)

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An educated guess/conclusion

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Characterization (direct and indirect)

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Direct: Being told. Indirect: Being shown

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Character motivation (internal and external)

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Internal: emotion External: money

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Juxtaposition

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Putting two things together to show the contrast/ emphasize

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Parallelism

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Similar structure to show similarities

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Pun

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A joke/ play on word

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Satire

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to use humor to expose or criticize people’s stupidity

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Irony

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The expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite

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