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Allusion

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The reference to a person, place, or poem, or event that are not apart of the story, but an author expects you to know

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Allegory

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Narrative (tells a story) in which characters, setting, and or symbols have both literal and figurative meanings

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Analogy

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Comparison between people, places, things that are similar in order to point out dissimilarities

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Apostrophe

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A figure of speech where character is talking to a thing, quality, or imaginary person, god, ghosts, like they are really there

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Audience

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The readers

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Characterization

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the way am author presents it's characters:
A. Physical description
B. Thoughts and actions
C. What other characters say about them
D. What they say
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Climax

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The highest action point in plot that peaks readers intrest

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Conflict

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Problem or disagreement between two forces

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Contrast

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Showing something against its opposite

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Diction

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Words that the author chooses to use

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Dramatic monologue

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A character directs a silent character very intense or emotional point of a story

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Euphemism

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Word or phrase that is less expressive or direct to be less offensive or distasteful (saying something mean in a nice way)

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Farce

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Comedy that depends on an overblown speech, unbelievable situations, exaggerated characters, and sexual hints

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Figurative language

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Words and phrases that have meanings different from their usual ones to create poetic or literary effect

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Flashback

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When the story goes back to an earlier time

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Foreshadowing

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Hints or clues in the story to what might happen in the story

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Form

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Genera; physical arrangement for words in poetry

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Hyperbole

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Figure of speech where truth is exaggerated for emphasis or humor

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Imagery (auditory)

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Sound

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Imagery (gustatory)

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Taste

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Imagery (kinesthetic)

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Body tension and movement

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Imagery (olfactory)

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Smell

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Imagery (organic)

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Internal feelings ex: heatbeat

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Imagery (tactile)

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Touch

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Imagery (visual)

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Seeing

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Inference

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Drawing a conclusion that is not stated by the author

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Dramatic irony

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The reader knows more than the characters

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Situational irony

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Contrast between what is expected and what actually happens

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Verbal irony

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Stating one thing but meaning the other

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Juxtaposition

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When you put two dissimilar things together to emphasize differences or heighten similarities

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Imagery

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Words that create a sensory experience

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Metaphor

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Compare directly of things that are dissimilar

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Mood

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The feeling the reader gets from the book; emotional aspect

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Motif

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Anything that reoccurs: image, object, idea, action, not necessarily a symbol

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Onomatopoeia

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Words who’s punctuation suggest their meaning

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Paradox

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Statement that seems contradictory or ridiculous but is quite true

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Parallelism

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Ideas of equal worth with the same grammatical form in sentence structure

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Parody

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Mocking piece of literature designed to ridicule in an exaggerated sarcastic way

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Persona

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Speaker in a poem like the narrator in a work of fiction

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Personification

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Giving human characteristics to something my human

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Plot

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The sequence of events: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution

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Point of view

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Perspective from which events are told 3rd limited or omniscient; first

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Prose

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All forms of written or spoken expression that is not a rhythmic pattern

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Pun

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Expression for emphasis or humor using two different meanings for the same word

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Satire

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Making fun of foolish ideas

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Setting

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Time, place, and circumstances

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Simile

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A comparison of two dissimilar things using like or as

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Structure

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Way a piece of literature is put together by arrangement of parts (paragraphs, chapters)

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Symbol/symbolism

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When an object in a story has a meaning greater than itself

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Syntax

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Arrangement of words to form sentences

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Theme

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The main message the author wants to get across to the reader

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Tone

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Authors attitude

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