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15 Cards in this Set
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Suspense |
Feeling of uncertainty regarding a story's action or outcome that is designed to keep the reader's interest |
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Conotation |
Suggested meaning |
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Direct exposition |
Telling the reader directly what the character is like |
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Conflict |
A struggle between opposing forces |
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Climax |
The point of highest intensity |
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Denotation |
Literal meaning |
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Imagery |
Use of words to appeal to our senses |
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Figurative Language |
Includes types of comparisons as well as language used on more than one level |
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Indirect Revelation |
Allow the reader to draw his own conclusions from what the character himself does or thinks |
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Ballad |
Short narrative song written (Groups of repeated lines usually containing the same meter and rhyme scheme) |
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Point Of View |
Story is the method of presenting the reader with the material of the story, perspective from which the story is told |
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Plot |
The arrangement of incidents or events, or the sequence of related actions |
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Personification |
Comparison in which human qualities are given to an inanimate object or an animal is called |
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Apostrophe |
Addressing an inanimate object as if it were alive or addressing an absent person as if he were present |
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Mystery |
Puzzles or mathematical problems as they provide intellectual excitement for the reader |
