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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 a portryal, in words, of something that can be percieved 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 or act in a certain way |
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| a persuasive piece of writing that presents and logically supports a particular view or opinion. |
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| tells a story to make a points or creates a picture to evoke the senses |
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| to first state a general idea and follow with a 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 or concept can and cannot mean |
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| to move upward from the specific examples to some feature they have in common (class) or to move downward from some concept to some system of subcategories within the concept. |
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| to show relationships between events and their results |
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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 and arguement by presenting the steps in the process first to last, by presenting details followed by a general statment or conclusion, or presenting ideas in order of the physical position |
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| the scenes of related events that make up a narration, such as a story novel or epic |
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| introduce the characters, setting, and usually, the narratives major conflict |
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| a literary device used at the beginning of a story or novel for the purpose of arousing a reader's curiousity and encouraging him to read further |
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| accelerate and adds complications to the plot |
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| a struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces, or emotions |
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| the moment of greatest emotional intensity or suspense |
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| unraveling of the complication |
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| settles the plots 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 whats going to happen later in the plot |
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| a scene in a narrative work that interupts the 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 a narrative |
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| where the story actually takes place |
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| emotional/atomosphere/mood |
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| feeling about a scene or subject created for a reader by the writer's selection of words and details |
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| the vantage point 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 omnicient narrator) but tells the story from the vantage point of only one character |
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| used in nonfiction to be factual and free of personal opinion and judgement |
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| the narrator knows everything that is going on in the story, but is outside the story, acting as a god like observer who can tell us what all the characters are thinking and feeling |
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| the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character |
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| the central idea or 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 seemingly unlike things by using a connective word such as, like, as, than, or resembles |
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| a kind of metaphor in which a non-human thing or quality is talked about 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, religion, 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 explictly |
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| a play on words, sometimes of different senses of the same word and 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 or designate something |
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| a figure 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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| the use of circumlocution |
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| a figure of speech by which a more inclusive term is used for a less inclusive term or vice versa |
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| a person, place, thing, or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself |
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| a word character, object image, metaphor, or idea that recurs in a work or in 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 them |
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| a contrast or descrepancy between expectations and reality- between what is and what is and what is really meant between what is expected to happen |
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| a figure of speech that combines apparently contradictory or opposing ideas |
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| an apparent contradiction that is actually true |
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| the situation through the opinion or bias of the writer |
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| the means by which an attitude conveyed |
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| a figure of speech that makes a comparision between two seemingly unlike things without using connective words like, as, than, or resembles |
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