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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 dramma.
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Character
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Person in a story, poem, or play.
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Setting
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The time and place of a story or play.
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Theme
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Central idea of 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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Attidute a writer takes torward a subject a character or the audience.
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Point Of View
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Vantage point from which a writer tells a story. In broad terms there are three possible points of view omniscient, first person, and third person limited.
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Symbol
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Person, place, thing, or event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself as well.
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Irony
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Contrast between expectations and reality between what is said and what is really meant, between what is expected to happen and what really does happen or between what appears to be true and what is really true
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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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Figure Of Speech
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Word or phrase that discribes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood on a literal level.
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