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27 Cards in this Set
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conflict
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man vs man, man vs anture, man vs self, man vs society
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protagonist
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main character or hero
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antagonisst
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character who works against the main character
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mood
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the feeling thorughout hte story
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setting
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time place landscape weather sotry takes place in
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point of view
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1st(I, me), 2nd(me, they, you) 3rd (they)
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plot
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elements on a story line that movie the plot along
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rising action
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events leading to a climax
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conflict
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a strugglw between opposing forces
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climax
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most epic/important even of the story
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falling action
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acts after climax bring story to an end
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denumont
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final scene, ties everythign off
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theme
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main messgae sent throughtout the story
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symbol
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word/pbject that stands for another word/object
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analogy
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similarity between two like featrues of things
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juxtaposition
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placeing 2 objects together for hte sake of comparison
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alliteration
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phrase where most of the words start iwht the same letter
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dramatic irony
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reader knows whats goin on but hte characters dont
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situational irony
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when one character knows whats going on but the other doesnt
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verbal irony
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character says somethign but means another
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comic relief
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flat character, used to releive tension but isnt deveoped
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figurative lanugage
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lang that isnt meant to be taken seriously
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diction
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when a play is dependent onthe coice of word sby the characters to create plot etc
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denotation
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the exact meanign of a word
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connotation
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feeling the word gives
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solioquoy
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speech to oneself the discuss thoughts- obvious to others but they cant hear it
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monologue
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speech given in a conversation to someone
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