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12 Cards in this Set
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antagonist |
a character or force in conflict with the main character |
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anecdote |
a brief story about an interesting, amusing or strange event |
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moral |
a lesson or guide for living |
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climax |
the high point in the action of literary work |
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setting |
time and place in which a story's events occur |
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conflict |
struggle between two opposing forces |
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theme |
the central message, concern or purpose in a literary work |
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metaphor |
a figure of speech that describes something as if it were something else; it does not use like or as |
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protagonist |
the main character in a literary work |
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personification |
figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics |
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simile |
a figure of speech using like or as that describes something as if it were something else |
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foreshadowing |
When the author gives a hint about what may happen in the story |
