Literary Terms Review

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Plot

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Series of related event that make up a story or drama

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Character

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Person in a story ,poem or play

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Theme

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Central idea of a work of literture

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Setting

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The time or place of a story or play

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Tone

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Attitude a writer takes towards a subject, a character, or the audience.

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Mood

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A stories atmosphere or feel of it

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Symbol

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Perosn ,place, thing, or event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself as well

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Point of view

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Vantage point from which a writer tells a story. in broad terms there are three possible point of views: omniscient, first person, and third person limited

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Ambiguity

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An element of uncertainty in a text, in which something can be inturperted in a number of different ways.

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Irony

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Contrast between expectations and reality-between what is said and what is really meant, between what is expected to happen and what really does happen, or between what appears to be true and what is really true.

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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 level.