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| A force working against the protagonist. |
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| A special mood or characteristics associated with a place. |
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| To join or support to a party or movement that seem to be assured of success. |
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| To favorite one thing or topic. |
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| Cause is the reason of the outcome(effect). |
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| The person, animal, or imaginary creature taking place in the book. |
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| The qualities shown by the character. |
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| The way a writer recreates and develops characters. |
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| The order in which things happen. |
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| The point of the most interesting part in a story or play. |
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| A struggle between opposing forces. |
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| A character who struggles against a force outside him. |
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| A conflict that occurs within a character. |
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| A written conversation between two or more characters. |
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| The first stage of a typical story plot. |
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| Writing that deals with imaginary elements. |
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| First-Person Point of View |
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| When the narrator is a character in the story. |
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| An interruption of the action to present events that took place at an earlier time. |
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| When a writer provides hints that suggest future events. |
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| A contrast between what is expected and what actually exists or happened. |
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| Limited Point of View (3rd Person) |
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| In which one does not consider all factors involved in arriving at an unbiased point of view. |
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| The reasons for a character's behaviors. |
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| Writing that tells about real people, places, or events. |
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| Omniscient Point of View (3rd Person) |
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| When the teller is all-knowing. |
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| The series of events in a story. |
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| Referring to how a writer chooses to narrate a story. |
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| To be biased or play favoritism. |
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| The main character in a story, play, or novel. |
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| When the conflict is resolved. |
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| The stage of plat that develops the conflict or struggle. |
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| The time and place of the story. |
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| A character defined by a single trait. |
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| A person, place, an object, or an activity that stands for something beyond itself. |
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| A message about life or human nature that the writer shares with the teachers. |
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| Third-Person Point of View |
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| When the narrator is not in the story. |
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| A theme that is directly expressed by the narrator or a character. |
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| A theme that is indirectly expressed stated through the character and background information. |
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| A genre of fiction in which an adventure, an exciting undertaking involving risk and physical danger, forms the main storyline. |
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| A genre of fiction passed down from generations. |
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| A genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary plot element, theme, or setting. |
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| A genre of fiction that tells a story that is set in the past. |
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| A genre of fiction that contains humor. |
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| A genre of fiction that is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, scare or startle viewers/readers by inducing feelings of horror and terror. |
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| A genre of fiction that usually is full of irony and unexpected. |
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| A genre of fiction with imaginative but more or less plausible content such as settings in the future, futuristic science and technology, space travel, parallel universes, aliens, and paranormal abilities. |
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| A self-written account of the life of a person. |
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| A detailed description or account of a person's life. |
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| A non-fiction that tells about something that actually happened. |
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| A genre of non-fiction writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives. |
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