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Definition: A brief summary of a story

Example: Romeo and Juliet was about two families who didn’t like each other. A member of each family fell in love though.

More info: this is usually found in the beginning of a story or at the back of a book.

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Description

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Definition: a part of a story that refers to the past

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Flashback

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Definition: a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory.

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Exposition

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Definition: Being able to move forward

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Fluency

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Definition: a warning or indication of (a future event).

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Foreshadowing

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Definition: being able to to picture a section of story

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Imagery

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Definition: the action of explaining the meaning of something

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Interpretation

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Definition: 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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Definition: relating to or denoting a case of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives (as in Latin and other inflected languages) used for the subject of a verb.

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Nominative

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Definition: (of a person or their judgment) not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts.

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Objective

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Definition: written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure

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Prose

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Definition: a persons perspective of something

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Opinion

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