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1
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What is analepsis

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A flashback to a past event

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What us dialogue

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The use of speech in a text

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What is prolepsis

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Flash forward to future event

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What is a cliffhanger

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A dramatic event, exciting ending

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What is in medias res

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A text starting in the middle of a event

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What is a shift in focus

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Changing focus from one thing to another

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What is a cyclical structure

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The ending of a text returns to the start

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What is a narrative perspective

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The point of view a text is written in

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What is foreshadowing

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An indication to a future event

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What is juxtaposition

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Opposing ideas

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Dramatic irony

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The audience have knowledge/understanding that a character doesn’t

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Heinous

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And utterly hateful, wicked attack

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Deception

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To trick/deceive someone

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Foreboding

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A feeling that something bad will happen

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Palpable

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So intense as seen tangible

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Ambiguity

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The quality of being opens more than one interpretation

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Illusion

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A deceptive appearance, or impression

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Perturbed

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Feeling anxiety or concern

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Metonymy

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Use of the name of one thing for that of another

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Anaphora

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Repeating something three times

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Stichomythia

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Dialogue with characters rapidly talk in alternative lines

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Paranoid

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Feeling extremely nervous or worried

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Erratic

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In pattern of movement; unpredictable

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Tyrant

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A ruler who uses power, oppressively or unjustly

25
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Anathesis

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A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else

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Oxymoron

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Went to opposite things, appear next to each other

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Nihilistic

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Rejecting all religious and moral principles in the belief that life is meaningless

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Allusion

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Call something to mind without mentioning it, explicitly; an indirect or passing reference

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Petrified

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So frightening, that one is unable to move; terrified

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Apprehensive

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Anxious or fearful, for that something bad or unpleasant will happen

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Unhinged

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Mentally unbalanced, deranged

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Neurotic

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Behaving strangely, or in an anxious way

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Equivocation

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Use of misleading, contradictory or ambiguous language intended to deceive others

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Eponymous

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When something is named after someone

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