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11 Cards in this Set
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plot
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series of elated events 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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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 story's atmosphere or the story it evokes.
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tone
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Attitude a writer takes toward a subject a character or audience.
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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 points of view :omniscient, first person, and third person limited.
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symbol
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person, place, thing or event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself as well.
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irony
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contrast between expectation 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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ambiguity
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An element of uncertainty in a text, in which something can be interupted in a number of different ways.
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figurative language
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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.
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