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Antagonist

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Person going against the main character

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Protagonist

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Main character in the story

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Setting

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The time and place of the action of the story

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Plot

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Sequence of events in a story

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Exposition

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Beginning. Provides back round info introduces settings, important characters, and conflict

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Rising action

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Conflict develops, story events build toward climax

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Climax

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Point of maximum tension or interest

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Denouement

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Results of the important action that happened in the climax

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Narration/point of view

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Character or voice that relates the stories events to the reader

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1st person

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Narrator is character in the story

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Third limited

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When narrator only knows what one person thinks, feels, and observes

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Third omniscient

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When narrator sees into the minds if all the characters (godlike)

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Internal conflict

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Conflict that occurs within the character

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External conflict

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When character is pitted against nature, physical obstacle, or another character

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Flat character

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One who is not fully developed. One dimensional

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Round character

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Complex, and highly developed. Many dimensions

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Static character

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One who remains the same throughout the story

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Dynamic character

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One who undergoes important changes

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Direct characterization

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When the author makes statements about the characters personality directly to the reader

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Indirect characterization

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When author reveals characters personality through characters thoughts, words, or interactions with others

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Tone

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The attitude the writer has toward the subject

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Theme

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Message about life or human nature that the writer wants the reader to understand

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Symbol

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A person, place, object, or activity that stands for something beyond its self

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Allusion

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Indirect reference to a famous person, place, event, or literary work

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Dialect

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A form of language that is spoken in a particular area, or particular social, or ethnic group

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Foreshadow

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A writers use of hints or clues to suggest events that will occur later in the story

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Irony

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Special kind of contrast between appearance and reality

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Dramatic irony

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When the reader knows something the character doesn’t

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Verbal irony

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When someone knowingly exaggerates or says one thing but means another

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Situational

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A contrast between what the reader expects and what actually exists or happens

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Pun

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Play on words (joke)

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Alliteration

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Repetition of constant sounds at the beginning of words

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Figurative language

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Language that communicates meanings beyond the literal meanings of words

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Metaphor

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A comparison between two things that are basically unlike but have something in common

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Simile

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Comparing two things using like or as

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Personification

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Giving something non-human, human characteristics

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Implied metaphor

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Suggests a comparison rather than stating it directly

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Imagery

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Descriptive words and phrases that re-create sensory experiences for the reader

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Onomatopoeia

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Words whose sounds echo their meanings

Ex. Buzz, crash, boom, bang

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Speaker

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The voice that “talks” to the reader similar to the narrator in a fiction

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Stanza

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Group of two or more lines that form a unit in a poem (paragraph)

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Enjambment

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When one line of poetry continues to the next

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Image

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Imagery is the stuff of poetry ~senses~sight

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Juxtaposition

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Putting two things next to each other to compare them

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