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What is first person narrative?

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Limited narrative, as they don’t have the omniscient perspective on the tale

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What is Retrospective?

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Looking back at events

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What is perspective?

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A point of view

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What is Chronological?

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In time order

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What is an unreliable narrator?

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A narrator who does not know the whole truth or hides it

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What is the gothic genre?

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A supernatural based genre. Often includes multiple narrators or forms of narration

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What is the crime genre?

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A mystery genre, often includes red herrings, the themes of appearance and reality, and the urban and rural

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What is an anti-climax

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Tension not resolved by the climax

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What is a climax?

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A high point of drama

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What is Withholding?

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Keeping facts or information from the reader

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What is foreshadowing?

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An event that suggests a event that will happen

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What is tension/anticipation

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Delaying plot or information. Tension makes the reader feel uneasy while anticipation makes the reader feel excited

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What is Denouement?

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The resolution of a novel

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What is Dialogue/action/description?

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The prevalence of these are important in a paragraph: what dominates? Why? Effect?

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What is atmosphere?

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The tone of mood of a place or situation

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What is a Flashback?

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Set in a time earlier than the main story

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What is a flashforward?

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Set in a time later than the main story

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What is setting?

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The surrounding where an event takes place

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What is a Shift?

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A change in tone or mood

20
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What is an alliteration?

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The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected word

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What is a simile?

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The comparison of one thing with another thing

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What is an adjective?

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A word naming the attribute of a noun

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What is an onomatopoeia?

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The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

24
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What do questions do?

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Makes the reader read more to find the answer

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What do long/short sentences do?

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The change in pace creates tension

26
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What do emotive language do?

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It makes the reader feel what the author wants the reader to feel

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What do vague/unclear detail do?

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Makes the reader sometimes be mislead so helps with a big plot twist which creates tension

28
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What is a common noun?

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In general used to name a person,place or thing

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What is a proper noun?

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Used to name a person,place or thing specifically

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What is an countable noun?

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Nouns that can be counted

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What is an uncounted noun?

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Nouns that can’t be counted

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What is a concrete noun?

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Nouns that you can see,hear,touch,smell or taste

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What is an abstract noun?

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Nouns you can’t see,hear,touch,smell or taste

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What is a compound noun?

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Two or more words to create a noun

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What is a collective noun?

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The name for a group of things

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What is an adverb?

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A word that describes a verb

37
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What is an adverbial phrase?

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A group of 2 or more words that act as a adverb

38
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What is an adverbial clause?

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A clause containing a subject and a verb that acts as an adverb

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What is a fronted adverbial clause?

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An adverb/adverbial phrase placed at the start of a sentence

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What is an a comparative adjective?

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An adjective to compare 2 different things

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What is a superlative adjective?

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Describes an object which is at upper or lower limit of a quality

42
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What is amnesty international?

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This is the world’s leading human rights organisation,campaigning against injustice and inequality

43
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What is the universal declaration of human rights?

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This is a milestone in human rights history. Drafted by representatives around the world. This was signed and agreed we by the UN in 1948

44
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What is protest?

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Protest most commonly means a public show of disapproval to something.
Protest is often used used as a verb meaning to participate in a protest as well

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What is ‘to bear witness’ mean?

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If someone or thing bears witness to something that means they show or say that it exists or witnessed

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