Literary Terms

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plot

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Series of related events that make up a story or drama

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setting

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the time and place of a story or play

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theme

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central idea of a work of literature

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mood

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a stories atmosphere or feeling it evokes

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tone

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attitude a writer takes toward a subject, character, or the audience

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point of view

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vantage point from which the writer tells the story. three possible points if view: omniscient, pirst person, third person.

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symbol

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person,place,things,or events that stand for itself and something beyond itself as well

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irony

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contrast between expectation and reality.between what is said and really ment,between what is expected to happen and what really happened.

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ambiguity

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an element of uncertainty in a text, in which something can be interpreted in a number of different ways.

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figuarative lanuage

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word or phrase that discribe one thing in terms of another. and is noy ment to be understood on literal terms