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14 Cards in this Set
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the series of happenings in a literary work
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plot
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a struggle upon which the literary work is based
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conflict
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a character's struggles with her or himself
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internal conflict
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a character's struggles with an outside force, such as society, another character, or nature
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external conflict
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an event that intensifies the conflict
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complication
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a turning point in the conflict
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climax
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the event that seems to resolve the conflict
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denoument
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the emotinoal associations surrounding a word, as opposed to its literal meaning
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connotation
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the strict, literal meaning of a word; the definition in a dictionary
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denotation
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a reasonable conclusion drawn by the reader or viewer from hints, or implications, provided by the author
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inference
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an author's attitude towared the subject of a literary work or toward the reader
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tone
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the atmosphere or feeling within a work of art
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mood
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events of a literary work that trace the responsibility for an action to its root or source
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cause and effect relationship
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a genre of fiction that is set in the frontier states of America during the latter part of the 19th century and that deals with the adventures of Western characters.
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western genre
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