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| the escalation of conflict |
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| a message or statement about life learned from the story |
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| a comparison using "like" or "as" |
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| a conflict outside of a character |
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| first person point of view |
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| when a character in the story is telling the story |
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| represents something other than itself |
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| the person telling the story |
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| a character that does not change |
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| a French word meaning "resolution" |
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| when an event turns out differently than expected |
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| the person who wrote the story |
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| necessary background information |
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| the time and place of a story |
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| third person point of view |
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| when a character outside of a story is telling the story |
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| when the narrator only knows what is in the mind of one or two characters |
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a struggle inside of a character
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| indirect characterization |
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| when the reader learns what a character is like through what the character says and does |
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| when the narrator explicitly tells the reader what a character is like |
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| a character that undergoes a change |
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| a comparison of two unlike things using a linking verb such as "is," "are," etc. |
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| giving human characteristics to something non-human |
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| when the reader knows something hidden to a character |
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| when what is said is not what is meant |
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| when a word sounds like the noise it represents |
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| a clue to something that will happen later in the story |
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