Literacy Terms Review

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plot

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A series of related events that make up a story or drama. Plot is what happens in a story, novel, or play.

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Character

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A person in a story, novel, or play.

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Settings

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The time and place of a story or play.

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Theme

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The central idea of a work of literature.

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mood

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A story's atmposphere or the feeeling it evokes. Mood is often created by a story's settings.

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Tone

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Attitude a writer takes towards 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 their are three posssible 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.

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Irony

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Contrast between expectation and reality-between what is said and what it really means, between what is expected to happen and what really happens, 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.