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11 Cards in this Set
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Plot
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Also called storyline. the plan, scheme, or main story of a literary or dramatic work, as a play, novel, or short story.
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Character
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An individual in a story, poem or a play.
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Setting
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Time and place of a story or play.
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Theme
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The central idea or insight about human life revealed by 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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The attitude a writer takes toward a subject, a character, or the reader.
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Point of view
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A vantage point from which a writer narrates, or tells, a story.
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Symbol
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Person, place, or thing or event that stands both for its self and something beyond its self.
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Irony
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Contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality.
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Ambiguity
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Element or uncertainty in a text in which something can be interpreted in a number of different ways.
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Figuritive language
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Word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and that is not ment to be understood on a litteral level.
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