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This period was an imagination provided freedom from the traditional forms of art.
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Romantic Period
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18th - 19th century?
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Romantic Period
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Conveys ideas of sentiment and sentimentality, an imaginative or idealistic lack of reality.
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Romantic Period
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An Artistic, literary, and intellectual movement.
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Romantic Period
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The period was a time of great revolutions. Passions, not reason, ruled the day.
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Romantic Period
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What are the two categories of Romantic Period:
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Chivalric adventures and mysterious,strange and terrifying
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This is where plot emphasized an individual hero
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chivalric adventures
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In this period the Common Themes are love of nature, Neo-classicism, the supernatural, heroism…
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Romantic Period
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Romantic Period - What commontheme: Love and instinct became more important than reason.
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Love of Nature
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Romantic Period - What commontheme: The social and economic classes were disparaged, or put down. An era of evolutions opened when the government were overthrown due to the fact that it often seemed to require elimination of social classes.
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Love of the common Man
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Romantic Period - What commontheme: Return to the classic ideals of clearness, elegance, symmetry and repose produced by attention to traditional forms
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Neo-Classicism
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Romantic Period - What commontheme: The love of exotic locations around the world and in time and space
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Strange and Far-away places
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Romantic Period - What commontheme: Fascination with the supernatural was a characteristic of the romantic period.
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Supernatural
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Romantic Period - What commontheme: Using scenes from their country's life, history, folk-ways and legends as a basis of operas, songs, literature and symphonic poems.
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Nationalism
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Romantic Period - What commontheme: Is the overcoming of our natural fears and limitations to achieve great things.
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Heroism
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She wrote Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Persuasion.
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Jane Austin
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He wrote A connecticut yankee in king arthur's court, the adventures of tom sawyer/huckleberry finn and the mysterios stranger.
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Samuel Clemens
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He wrote The rime of the ancient mariner, kublah khan, the dungeon and the pains of sleep.
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Samuel Coleridge
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He wrote the adventures of sherlocke homles, the lost world and the valley of fear.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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He wrote the spy, the pioneers, the leathersstocking tales and the last of the mochicans.
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James Fenimore Cooper
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He wrote the three musketeers, the count of monte cristo and the man in the iron mask.
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Alexandre Dumas, Pere
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He wrote the raven, the conqueror worm, the evening star, the masque of the red death, the tell tale heart and the assignation.
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Edgar Allan Poe
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She wrote Frankenstein, the false rhyme, the last man and the mourner.
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Mary Shelley
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He wrote twenty thousand leagues under the sea, around the world in eighty days, jorney to the center of the earth and from the earth to the moon.
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Jules Verne
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He wrote ode to the west wind, ozymandias and to a skylark.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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He wrote Ode on a grecian urn.
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John Keats
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The romantic period ended with the coronation of the queen?
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Queen Victoria
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This period had no central government.
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Medieval
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These people often want to gain or to defend their land war.
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Lords
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Medieval Period - Society was based on what? A system where lords rewarded land to vassals or retainers in return for protection.
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Feudalism
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What are the 3 classes of society:
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Those who pray, fight and work
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classes of society - Clergy of the roman catholic church
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those who pray
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classes of society - ranks of nobles: kings. Princes and knights
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those who fight
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classes of society - peasants
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those who work
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Medieval Period - Main source of economic production.
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Agriculture
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Medieval Period - These are people who owed obligations to their Lords and they worked the land in return.
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Serfs
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Medieval Period - People who had more wealth and power.
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Noble classes
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Medieval Period - These men must abide by a code of chivalry and must devote himself to honor, peity and service to God.
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Knights
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Medieval Period - This was influenced the culture and society of the medieval age.
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Catholic Church
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Medieval Period - Language of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Latin
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Medieval Period - What are the four types of writing:
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Religious, Secular, Women's lit and Allegory
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Medieval Period - They were called the intellectuals.
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Catholic clergies
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Medieval Period - Countless ______ survived from this period.
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hymns
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Medieval Period - He wrote long theological and philosophical pieces.
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Pierre Abelard
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Traveling singers
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Troubadours
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A contradictory experience between erotic desire and spiritual attainment
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secular literature
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women were never accorded full equality with men
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women literature
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claire of assisi, briget of sweden and catherine of siena
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exemplary women writers
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a figurative mode of representation conveying a meaning other than the literal.
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allegory
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A notable amount of literature is anonymous, names of the authors seem unimportant and important works were never attributed to any specific person.
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Anonymity
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Important issues from the 17th and 18th Century:
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Gender Roles, Paradise lost in Context and Civil wars of Ideas
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The first half of the this century as a whole, was a period of relaxing vigor.
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17th century
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In the 17th century english poets are divided into two:
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Metaphysical and Cavalier poets
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Represent a closely related movement; their poetry likewise sought unusual metaphors, which they then examined in often extensive detail.
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Metaphysical poets
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Their poetry is light in style, and generally secular in subject.
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Cavalier Poets
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18th Century. Three discreet literary eras:
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Restoration, Age of Satire and Johnson
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Dominated by Dryden
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Restoration
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Dominated by Switf and Pope. Concerned with civilization and social.
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Age of Satire
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Dominated by Johnson. A new kind of poetry and major literary form, the novel.
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Age of Johnson
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17th century - a jacobean poet and preacher, representative of the metaphysical poets of the period. considered a master of the conceit, an extended metaphor that combines two vastly unlike ideas into a single idea, often using imagery.
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John Donne
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17th century - an english poet, porse polemicist, and civil servant for the English Common Wealth. Most famed for his epic poem Paradise Lost
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John Milton
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17th century - an english renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. Best known for his satrical plays which includes Volpone and The Alchemist.
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Ben Jonson
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17th century - a weish poet, orator and a priest. He wrote A priest to the temple (or County Parson)
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George Herbert
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17th century - an english metaphysical poet, and the son of an anglican clergy man. One of his works is the Garden. His style is often witty and full of elaborate conceits in the elegant style of the metaphysical poets.
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Andrew Marvell
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18th century - an influential english poet, literary critic, translator and playwright. He dominated the age of Restoration. He wrote All for love.
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John Dryden
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18th century - He was also a great wit and prose stylist, well known for his aphrorisms. The latter part of the 18th century was called the age of johnson. One of his works "A dictionary of the english language".
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Samuel Johnson
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18th century - was a prolific writer, famous for his satires. His writings represents the new, the different and the modern attempting to change the world by parodying the ancient and incumbent. One of his works "The Battle of the books".
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Jonathan Swift
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18th century - An english playwright and poet. He had written four comedies, including the Way of the World.
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William Congreve
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18th century - a british writer, journalist, and spy. Gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe.
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Daniel Defoe
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18th century - generally regarded as the greatest English poet of the early eighteenth century, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. One of his works An essay on Criticism.
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Alexander Pope
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What are the main elements of fiction?
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Plot, Setting, Character, Conflict, Symbol, and Point of View
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A person, an animal or an imaginary creature that takes the part in the action of the story.
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Characters
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What are the two types of characters?
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Protagonist and Antagonist
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The main character of the story that is most central to the action of the story.
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Protagonist
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The person or thing working against the protagonist or hero, in the story.
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Antagonist
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The tecniques an author uses to develop the personality of a character in a literary work.
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Characterization
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The time and place in which the action occurs.
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Setting
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The perspective or vantage point from which an author presents a story.
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Point of View
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The story told by one of the characters in the story. The character uses the pronouns I and We.
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1st person
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The story is told by the narrator who stands outside of the story and observes the events as they unfold. The narrator uses the pronouns she, he and they.
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3rd person
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The action or sequence of events in a story. It is based on a key conflict.
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Plot
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What are the five part of the plot?
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Exposition, Rising action, Climax, Falling Action and Resolution
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The first part of the story. The auther establishes the setting, introduces characters, gives additional background information.
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Exposition
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The series of conflicts or struggles that build a stiry toward its climax. Tension rises.
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Rising Action
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The high point or turning point of a story. It is the most intense point. A decision is made that will decide the outcome of the conflict.
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Climax
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The action that works out the decision arrived at during the climax. The conflict is -or begins to be -settled.
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Falling Action
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The ending. It ties up loose ends and brings the story to a close.
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Resolution
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The statement about life that the author wants to share with the reader. Often times, the reader will have to make inferences or resonable guesses as to the theme of the story.
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Theme
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An image or an object in a story that is used repeatedly and carries a deeper meaning.
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Symbolism
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Characters that stay the same throughout the story.
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Static Characters
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Characters that change and learn something during the story.
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Dynamic Characters
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