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Alliteration

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Repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds at the beginning or words.

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Allusion

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Reference to a statement, a person, place, or an event from literature.

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Ambiguity

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An element of uncertaunty in a text. Can be interpreted in several ways.

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Analogy

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Comparison made between two things to show how they are alike in some respects.

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Antagonist

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The character of force that blocks the protagonist.

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Autobiography

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An account of the writer's own life.

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Bias

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Leaning towards 1 side of an issue.

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Biography

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An account of a person's life written or told by another person.

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Character

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Person in a story, poem, or play.

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Characterization

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the process of revealing the personality of a character in a story.

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Chronological Order

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the order things happen in real time.

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Chronology

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List of things in real time order.

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Climax

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Moment of great emotional intensity or suspense in a plot.

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Conflict

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Struggle of clash between opposing characters or opposing forces.

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Connotation

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All the meanings, assosiations, or emotions that have come to be attached to some words.

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Context

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Surroundings.

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Contradiction

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Occurs when two statements or situations have opposite meanings.

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Contrast

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Looking at 2 things making for the differences.

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Denotation

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Dictionary Definition.

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Dialouge

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The conversations between characters in a story or play.

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Diction

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A writer's or speaker's choice of words.

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Direct Characterization

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When an author tells you directly what a character's personality is like.

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Dramatic Irony

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Occurs when the audience or the reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know.

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Exposition

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Introduction to a story.

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External Conflict

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Struggle between a character and another character or a physical outside force.

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Falling Action

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Comes after the climax, action starts to decrease as the story begins to wrap up.

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Fiction

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Writing that isn't true/fictional.

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First-person Narrator

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When a character tells his or her own story.

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Flashback

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Scene in a movie, play, short story, novel, or a narrative poem that interrupts the present action of the plot to flash back and tell what happened.

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Flash-Forward

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Scene in a movie, play, short story, novel, or narrative poem that inderrupts the present action of the plot to shift into the future.

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Flat character

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A character with only 1 or 2 character traits, not well-developed, no major role.

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Foreshadowing

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The use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in plot.

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Genre

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The category that a work of literature is classified under. Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Myth.

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Historic Context

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Actual events which serve as the setting for a story.

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Inciting Incident

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What starts the problem; the conflict starter.

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Indirect Characterization

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When a characters personality is revealed by their actions, reactions, interacionts, and speech.

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Inference/To Infer

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Use what you know to make a educated guess.

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Internal Conflict

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Conflict in someones mind.

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Irony

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Contrast between expecation and reality, Between what is said and what is really meant, between what is expected to happen and what really happens.

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Literary Criticism

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Analyzing literature for deeper meanings.

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Main Idea

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A central message that the writer wants to communicate to the reader.

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Mood

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A story's atmosphere or the feeling it evokes.

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Narrator

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The voice telling a story.

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Nonfiction

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Writing that deals with real people, things, events, and places.

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Objective

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Being unbiased; Not promoting an opinion; just giving facts.

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Omniscent Narrator

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Someone who knows everything about everyone in the story.

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Parody

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Imitating someone or something to poke fun at them.

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Persuasion

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Making others believe your point by supporting an argument.

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Plot.

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Series of related events that make up a story or drama.

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Point Of View

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Vantage points from which a wrtier tells a story.

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Prose

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Written or spoken language in it's ordinary form.

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Protagonist

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Main character in a fiction of novel.

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Resolution

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The end of a story, when all the struggles are over. We know what will happen with the characters.

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Rising actions

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Series of complications, main character takes action to resolve.

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Round character

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A figure who has several sies to his personality.

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Satire

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Type of writing that ridicules something.

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Setting

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Time and place of a story or play.

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Short Story

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Short, concentrated, fictional prose narrative.

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Situational Irony

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Occurs when there's a contrast between what would seem appropriate and what really happens.

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Static Character

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Characters that don't progress or change.

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Style

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Refers to the particular way a writer uses language.

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Subjective

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Based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions.

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Suspense

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Uncertainty or anxiety the reader feels about what is going to happen next in the story.

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Symbol

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Person, place, thing, or event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself as well.

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Theme

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Central idea of work of literature.

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Third person omniscent

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The third-person omniscient is a narrative mode in which both the reader and author observe the situation either through the senses and thoughts of more than one character.

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Third person limited point of view

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Seepoint of vew.

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Title

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Name of the story, play, poem, etc.

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Tone

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Attitude a writer takes toward a subject, a character, or the audience.

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Unreliable Narrator

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May not always know the whole truth or may purposely choose to deceive us,

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Verbal Irony

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A writer or speaker says one thing but really means something completely different.

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Voice

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The writer's or speaker's distinctive use of language in a text.