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Plot –

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events that make up a story

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Exposition -

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a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory.

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Rising Action –

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the bild up to the climax

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Climax –

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the most intense, exciting, or important point of something

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Falling Action

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the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax

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Resolution

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Where the conflict is resolved

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Conflict

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any struggle between opposing forces.

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Subplot

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a secondary strand of the plot that is a supporting side story for any story or the main plot.

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Setting

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the setup of the story

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Mood

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The atmosphere

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Tone

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attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied

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Point of View

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a particular attitude or way of considering a matter.

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Narrator

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a person who narrates something, especially a character who recounts the events of a novel or narrative poem.

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First Person

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a human being regarded as an individual.

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Third Person

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someone who isn't directly involved in the action) tells you everything that goes down.

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Omniscient

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knowing everything.

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Limited

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thoughts of one persons thoughts and feelings

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Subjective Narrator

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some one who tells the story from one point of view

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Objective Narrator

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All thoughts and feelings

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Character

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a person that a story is about

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Protagonist

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ussaly the main charactor

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Antagonist

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the opossing force for the protagonist

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Theme

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the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.

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Recurring Theme

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a theme that repeats in different stories but its the same theme.

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Universal Theme

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a theme common in many books and is understood by a wide audience.

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Elegy

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a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.

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Epic

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a long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation.

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Lyric

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expressing the writer's emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms.

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Ballad

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a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next as part of the folk culture.

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Ode

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a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter.

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Sonnet

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a poetic form which originated in Italy;

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Rhyme Scheme

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the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song.

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Meter

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a unit of rhythm

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Stanza

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a grouped set of lines within a poem

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Couplet

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a pair of lines of metre in poetry.

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Metaphor

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a figure of speech

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Simile

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a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared

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Onomatopoeia

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the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

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Alliteration

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the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

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Repetition

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he action of repeating something that has already been said or written.nmb,m

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Hyperbole

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exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

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Personification

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the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman,

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Imagery

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the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things

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Drama

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the specific mode of fiction represented in performance.

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Dialogue

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conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.

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Stage Direction

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an instruction in the text of a play, especially one indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting.

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Text

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an academic journal of language, discourse, and communication

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Subtext

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undertone is content of a book, play, musical work, film, video game, television series,

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Aside

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a remark or passage by a character in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play.

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Expository

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intended to explain or describe something.

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Text Structure

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how the information within a written text is organized.

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Description

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a spoken or written representation or account of a person, object, or event.

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Sequence

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a chant or hymn sung or recited

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Comparison

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the formation of the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs.

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Cause and Effect

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cause is WHY something happens. An effect is WHAT happens

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Problem and Solution

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a pattern of organization where information in a passage is expressed as a dilemma

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Argument

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an exchange of diverging or opposite views, typically a heated or angry one.

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Support

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support verses and support rhymes for invitations,

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Counterargument

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a contrasting, opposing, or refuting argument.

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Refute

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prove (a statement or theory) to be wrong or false; disprove.