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Anecdote

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A story about something real

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Antagonist

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A character in the anecdote

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3
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Autobiography

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A story about someone’s life

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Biography

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A story about someone

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Climax

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The most intense part of the story

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Complication

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A problem or dilemma

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Conflict

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A disagreement or argument

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Denouement

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Final part

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Dialogue

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2 people are talking

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Exposition

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An explanation

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Falling Action

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After the climax

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12
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Fiction

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Not real

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First Person

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Using I, me. Saying your point of view.

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Flashback

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A sudden memmory

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15
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Flat Character

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A character that stays the same

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Foreshadowing

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A wanring or indication

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17
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Genre

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The topic

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Heroic

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Having the characteristics of a hero

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19
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Heroine

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Admired

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Memoir

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A historical account or biography

21
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Narrative

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A story

22
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Non- fiction

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Based on a true story, its a fact

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Omniscient

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Seeing something

24
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Parallelism

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A word that creates a tone or a flow for poetry.

25
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Plot

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Plan in secret

26
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Protagonist

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Main character

27
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Rising Action

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Story gets exciting

28
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Suspense

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Uncertain feeling

29
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Third Person

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She, he, it. Outsider looking

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Alliteration

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The beginning of the word starts with the same letter.

31
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Allusion

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An indirect reference in literature

32
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Assonance

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Words that rhyme is used commonly in a sentence or piece of literature. The vowels are the same

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Consonance

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Vowels are different, but the words rhyme.

34
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Hyperbole

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Not literal and exaggerated

35
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Irony

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Something that is said means the opposite of what they meant.

36
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Limerick

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Humorous shot lines

37
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Metaphor

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A figure of speech that isn’t literal.

38
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Onomatopoeia

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Sounds

39
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Oxymoron

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Figure of speech

40
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Parody

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Imitation

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Personification

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Referring to human attributes, but using them in sentences makes them not literal.

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Pun

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Joke

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Simile

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Comparison of 2 things

44
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Stanza

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Paragraph

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Symbolism

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Using symbols

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Rhyme Scheme

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Sounds that are repeated

47
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Rhyme

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Similar sounds

48
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Excerpt

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A short part of a story (passage that is taken away from a story).

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