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| Is background information on the characters and setting. The EXPOSITION may also explain what happened before the story began. |
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| series of events that leads to the climax of the story. |
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| The story's highest point of interest. |
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| the falling action in a work of literature is the sequence of events that follows the climax and ends in the resolution. |
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| the series of events that follow the plot's climax. It is the conclusion or resolution of the story. |
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| a way the events of a story are conveyed to the reader; it is the "vantage point" from which the narrative is passed from author to the reader. |
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| problem within the story; the four types are internal, external, supernatural, and societal. |
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| the time, place, physical details, and circumstances in which a situation occurs. Settings include the background, atmosphere or environment. |
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| how an author brings a character to life. Characterization is the physical appearance, actions, speech, and behavior of a character, and his or her interaction with other characters. |
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| an interruption in the narrative to show something that happened before. |
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| hints an author gives related to the story. |
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| a feeling the story creates in the reader. |
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| the author's attitude towards the subject, characters, and reader. |
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| a conversation between characters. |
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| person, place, thing, or event used to stand for something abstract in the story. |
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| referring to how a person, situation, statement, or circumstance is not as it would actually seem. Many times it is the exact opposite of what it appears to be. There are many types of irony, the three most common are verbal, dramatic, and situational. |
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| a comparison of ideas or objects that are completely different, but are alike in one important way. |
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| a figure of speech where animals, ideas, or inorganic objects are given human characteristics. |
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| a comparison between two objects using like or as. |
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| a comparison between two things without using like or as (saying one thing IS or another). |
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| involves one or more of your five senses (hearing, taste, touch, smell, sight). An author uses a work or phrase to stimulate your memory of those senses. |
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| an extravagant exaggeration. It is a figure of speech that is a grossly exaggerated description or statement. In literature, such exaggeration is used for emphasis or vivid description. |
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| a character in a story or poem who deceives, frustrates, or works against the main character or protagonist in some way. It necessarily doesn't have to be a person. |
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| main character or lead figure in a novel, play, story, or poem. |
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| an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh. |
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| a rhetorical device that achieves a special effect by using words in distinctive ways. |
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