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Plot

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The main events in literature.

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Persuasive Essay

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An argumentative paper trying to sway the reader’s opinion to theirs. Also known as argument essay, utilizes logic & reasonings

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Poetry

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A literary work in thick special intensity is given to the expression of feeling me and ideas by the distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively of as a genre if literature.

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Point of View

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A narrator’s position in relation to the story being told.

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Primary Source

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A document or physical object which was written or creative during the time understudy.

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Prop

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A thing.

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Prose

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A written or spoken language in it’s form.

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Protagonist

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The leading character or one of the major characters in fictional/nonfictional text.

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Repetition

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The action of repeating something that’s already been said or written.

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Resolution

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The action of solving a dispute, problem or contentious matter.

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Rhyme

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Correspondence of sounds between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines in poetry.

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Rhyme Scheme

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The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines, poem or verse.

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Rhythm

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A strong, regular or repeated pattern.

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Rising Action

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A series of related incidents build toward the point of greatest interest.

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Setting

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Where and when.

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Short Story

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A story where there’s a fully developed theme but significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel.

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Simile

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A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different sort.

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Slant Rhyme

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Stressed syllables if ending matching consonants, however the preceding vowel sounds don’t match.

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Soliloquy

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One’s speaking thoughts aloud when by oneself regardless of any hearers.

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Sonnet

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A poem of 14 rhymes using any number of rhyme schemes.

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Speaker

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The person speaking.

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Stage Directions

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Part of the play’s script and tells the actors how to move.

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Stanza

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A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit.

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Stereotype

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A widely held but fixed and over-simplified image/idea

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Structure

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The arrangement of and relations between the parts/elements of something complex.