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11 Cards in this Set
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Plot
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Series of related events that make up a story or drama
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Character
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Individual in a story, poem, or play
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Setting
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Time and place of a story or play
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Theme
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The central idea or insight about human life revealed by a work of literature
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Mood
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A story's atmosphere or the feeling it evokes
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Tone
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The attitude a writer takes toward a subject, a character, or the reader
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Point of view
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Vantage point from which a writer narates, or tells, a story
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Symbol
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Person, place, thing, or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself
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Irony
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Contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality
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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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Figuritive language
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A 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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