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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 the 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 of it.
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tone
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The attitude a writer takes towards a subject, a character, or the reader.
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point of view
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Vantage point from which a writer narrates, or tells, a story.
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symbol
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Person, place, thing, or event that stand for itself and 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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Element of uncertainty in a text, in which something can be interpreted 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 that is not meant to be understood on a literal level.
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