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| writing that represents a series of events |
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| prose writing that tells about imaginary characters and events |
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| writing that is portrayed in words,of something that can be perceived by the senses |
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| writing that explains a position posed by the writer |
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| writing that tries to convince the reader or listener to think/ act in a certain way |
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| a persuasive piece of writing that presents and logically supports a particular view or opinion ( sometimes distinguished from persuasion, which relies in an emotional appeal, nt reason or logic) |
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| tells a story to make a point or creates a picture to evoke the senses |
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| to first state a general idea and follow w/ specific reasons, examples, facts and details to support the general idea |
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| clarifying a situation by establishing limits for what a word/ concept can and cannot mean |
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| to move upward from specific example to some feature that they have in common (class) or to move downward from some concept to some system of sub categories within that concept |
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| to show relationships between events and their reesults |
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| to demonstrate that one object is better than another or to reveal a particular relationship between two objects |
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| an operation that moves through a series of steps to bring about a desired result |
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| organizing an arguement by presenting the steps in the process first to last by presenting details followed by a geberal statement or conclusion or presrnting ideas in order of their physical position (top-bottom, left-right, background-foreground) |
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| the series of related events that make up a narrative such as a story, novel, or epic |
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| introduces the characters,setting and usually the narrative's major conflict |
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| a literary device used at the begnning of a story/novel for the purpose of arousing a readers curiosity and encouraging them to read further |
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| accelerates and adds complications to the plot |
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| a struggle or clash between opposing characyers, forces, or emotions |
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| the moment of greatest emotionaal intensity or suspense |
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| unraveling of the complications |
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| settles the plot's conflicts |
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| a short addition at the end of literary work, often dealing with the future of its characters |
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| a clue or clues that hint at what is going to happen later in the plot |
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| a scene in a narrative work that interrups thee present action of the plot to "flash backward" and tell what happened at an earlier time |
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| the time and place of a story, play or narrative poem |
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| where the story actually takes place |
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| emotional/atmosphere/mood |
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| feeling about a scene or subject created for a reader by the writers selection of words details |
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| the vantage from which a writer tells a story |
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| the narrator is a character in the story |
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| the narrator is outside the story-like an omniscient narrator but tells the story from the vantage point of only one character |
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| used in non-fiction to be factual and free of personal opinion and judgement |
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| the narrator knowws everything that is going on in the story, but is outside the story. Acting like as a godlike observer who can tell us what all the characters are thinking/feeling |
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| the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character |
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| the central idea/insight of a work of literature |
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| a comparison of two things to show that they are alike in certain respects |
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| a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seeingly unlike things by using a connective word such as like, as than, or resembles |
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| a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things w/o using the connective words like, as, than or resembles |
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| a kind of metaphor in which a non-human thing or quality is talked baout as if it were human |
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| a reference to a statement,person, place, event, or thing that is known from literature, history, religon, myth, politics, or some other field of knowledge |
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| language that appeals to the senses |
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| words that name or state explicitly |
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| a play on words, sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words |
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| the act or an example of the substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensive |
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| a figure of speech in which an attribute or commonly associated feature is used to name/desgnate something |
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| a fig. of speech by which a more inclusive term is used for a less inclusive term or vice versa |
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| the use of circumlocation |
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| a fig. of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent or dead person, a deity, an abstract quality or something non-human as if it were present and capable of responding |
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| a person, place, thing or event that stands for something beyond itself |
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| a word, character, object, image, metaphor or idea that recurrs in a work/ several works |
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| a pattern or model that serves as the basis for different but related versions of a character plot image or theme |
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| a contrast or discrepency between expectations and reality. between what is said, and what is really meant, between what is expected and what really happens or between what appears to be true and what really is true |
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| a fig. of speech that combines apparently contridictory or opposing ideas |
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| an apparent contridiction that is actually true |
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| the situation plus the opinion or bias of the writer (articulated in a sentence) |
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| the means by which an attitude is conveyed (articulated in a word) |
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