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| A true or fictitious story |
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| Demonstrates a range of human qualities typical of actual human beings. Spiderman is considered a round character because he displays many human emotions. |
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| The central figure in a literary work. Batman is the hero and protagonist in the movies that bear his name. |
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| Conclude based on evidence or premises. |
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| Types of Linear Plots (3) |
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| The start of the story, the situation before the action starts |
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| The dramatic struggle between two forces in a story. Without conflict, there is no plot. |
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| Relating to a style of fiction that has grotesque, desolate, and mysterious themes and descriptions |
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| A division of a poem into two or more lines |
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| A device in which human characteristics are given to something nonhuman. |
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| A speech made by a character who is alone and speaks private thoughts as if the audience were not there |
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| The everyday language spoken by a people as distinguished from the literary language |
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| A narrative structure containing or connecting a series of otherwise unrelated tales |
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| Scornfully or cynically mocking |
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| Given to complaining; peevish |
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| Starting from Aristotle in the 4th century BCE, studies the art of literature and explores the ways that literature affects us emotionally, intellectually, and aesthetically. |
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| The Harlem Renaissance was the development of the Harlem neighborhood in New York City as a black cultural mecca in the early 20th Century and the subsequent social and artistic explosion that resulted. Lasting roughly from the 1910s through the mid-1930s, the period is considered a golden age in African American culture, manifesting in literature, music, stage performance and art. (History.com) |
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| Shows one single, dominant trait |
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| The character who opposes or works against the protagonist |
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| The order in which the events happen in a story |
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