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Allegory

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a work in which every character or detail is understood to be a metaphor for something else

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Stage direction

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the playwright dictates details on placement of various things on the stage

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First person

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a character who participates in the action of the story or novel and refers to himself and his actions.

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Description

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The author may describe a character's physical appearance, voice, gestures in great detail

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Irony

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is found in statements contrary to reality or opposite to expectations

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Complication

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Introduces the conflict or problem

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Diction

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What a character says to and about others and what others say to and about that character reveal a great deal.

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Narrator

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The teller of the story

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Point of view

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the method through which the author tells/narrates the work

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Persona

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an invented character to narrate

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Theme

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the author's message about life, people, and society

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exposition

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introduces the background information

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Personification

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the writer describes an inanimate object as if it were alive or an animal as if it were human.

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climax

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the highest intesity or interest or action in the plot, and it may also be the turning point.

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conflict

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struggle faced by the protagonist

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Effaced narrator

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Not a character in the story does not share any characters' thoughts

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Dialect

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how the author shows the pronunciation

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Dialogue

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refers to two people speaking to one another

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Characterization

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how the author reveals and develops his or her characters for the reader.

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Aside

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made by a character who is on stage with other characters but is not heard by the other characters.

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Internal conflict

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when the protagonist's cheif conflict, or struggle faced by the protagonist, is within himself

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Setting

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Where the story takes place

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Motivation

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the reason for a character's attitudes and behaviors

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Soliloquy

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an extended speech in which a character alone on the stage and speaks his or her thoughts aloud

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Drama

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form of literature intended to be watched

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Plot

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The plot is the series of related events which occur within the work of literature

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Allusion

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an implied reference to another person, real or fictional, or to an event in history or in literature or to a specific work of literature or art.

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foreshadowing

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clues that hint the readers on how the book will end

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Symbolism

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the use of physical details to represent more significant concrete phenomena

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Protagonist

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the protagonist is the main character or hero of the work

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Metaphor

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the writer describes one thing with terms or characteristics associated with something else, making one thing be the other thing

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foil

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A foil is a character who reveals information about the protagonist by opposing him or by behaving in a contrasting manor.

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Character

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The people in the works of literature

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Limited Omniscient

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Not a character in the story, reveals the thoughts of only one character

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Antagonist

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is the chief opponent or obstacle faced by the protagonist.

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external conflict

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A conflict between the protagonist and a being or force outside himself

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Simile

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comparison which contains like or as

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Omniscient

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not a character in the story and reveals the thoughts of more than one of those characters

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Resolution/denouement

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explains what happens to the characters after the climax, the wrapping up the sitution

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Figurative Language

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several different ways writers make comparisons in order to clarify or expand their meanings and to generate intellectual or emotional responses in the readers.

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Analogy

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a writer explains a difficult concept by comparing it to a more familiar concept.

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stock character

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familiar types who are recognized by obvious or exaggerated characteristics