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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 drama.
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Character
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individual in a story, poem, or 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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vantage point from which a writer narrates, or tells, a story.
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Symbol
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person, place, thing, or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
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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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an element of uncertainty in a text, in which something can be interpreted in a number of different ways.
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Figurative Language
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word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and that is not meant to be understood on a literal level.
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