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30 Cards in this Set
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Aliteration
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A repition of a sound or letter at the begginning of words
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Allusion
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A reference to a famous person, place,event or work of literture
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Antagonist
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The bad guy; the force working against the protagonist
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Author's Purpose
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The purpose an athor's write a story.
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Autobiography
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nonfiction in which a person tells the story of his or her own life
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Biography
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The story of a person's life, written by someone else
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cause
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Why an event happens
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Effect
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What happens (follows the cause)
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Character
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Person, animal, or imaginary creature that a story is about
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Major Character
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A character the story is mainly about
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Minor Character
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A less important character
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Characterization
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All the technigues writers use to create and develop characters
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Chronological order
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The order in which things happen in time
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Climax
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In the plot story, the turning point or the most exciting part
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Conflict
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Struggle between opposing forces
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Internal Conflict
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Struggle within a character
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External Conflict
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A character stuggles against another character or an outside force
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Contrast
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Pointing out differences between things
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Dialect
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A form of language that it spoken in a certain group of people
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Dialogue
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The words that characters speak aloud
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Drawing Conclusions
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Combining several pieces of information to make an inference
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Fable
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A brief story that teaches a lesson
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Fantasy
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A story that takes place in an unreal imaginary world. They often invole magic or characters with super human powers
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Fiction
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Imaginative; not true
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flashback
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an interruption of the action to present a scene that took place at an earlier time
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Foreshadowing
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a writer provides a hint that suggests future events in a story
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Free Verse
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Poetry
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Hyperbole
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Exaggeration or overstatement
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Idiom
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AN expression that has a meaning differant from the meaning of its individual words
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Imagery
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Words and phrases that appeal to readers senses
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