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28 Cards in this Set
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antagonist
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one who opposes and contends against another; an adversary
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atmosphere/mood
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a story or atmosphere or the feeling it evokes
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autobiography
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an acccount of the writers own life
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characterzation
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process of reveling the perosnality of a character in a story
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biography
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an account of a persons life written or told by another person
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climax
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moment of great emotional intensity or suspense in a pilor
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conflict
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struggle or clash between oppesit characters or opposing forces
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connotation
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assotiations or emotions that have come to be attached to some words in addition to there literal dictionary definitions or denotations
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dialouge
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the conversation between characters in a story or play
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essay
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short peice of non fiction that examines a single subject from a limited point of view
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figure of speech
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word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood on a literal leval
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denotation
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An idea or meaning suggested by or associated with a word or thing
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foreshadowing
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the use of clues to hint at events that will occur later int her play
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irony
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contrast between what is meant and what is really meant between what is true and what is really true, what happens and what really happens
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narrator
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the voice telling the story
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novel
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fictional prose narrative usually consisting of more that fifty thousand words
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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 point from which a writter tells a story...
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protagonist
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main character in fiction or drama
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satre
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type of writting that ridicules something - a peron, a group, if people , humanity at large, an attitude or failing or social institution- in order to reveal a weekness
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setting
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the time and place of a story or play
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short story
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story concentrated, fictional prose narrative
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short story
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story concentrated, fictional prose narrative
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sterotype
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a conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinon or image.
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symbol
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person, place , or even event
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theme
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central idea of a work of literature
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prose
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ordinary speech or writing with at metrical structure
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tone
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the authors attitude, stated or implied , toward a subject
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