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| The structure of the story. The sequence in which the author arranges events in a story |
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| Builds suspense throughout the story |
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| Highest point of action in the story |
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| Tying up loose ends; Final Outcome |
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| A person or animal that is in a literary work. |
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| Descring a character directly as one would see them |
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| Indirect Characterization |
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| The author develops the character through his/her actions, dialogue, thoughts, apperance or aother characters reactions |
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| The time, place, weather, and season the story takes place. |
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| A character who does not have a personality that changes due to plot |
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| A character that undergoes an important internal change due to the plot |
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| A minor character that does not grow or change through the story |
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| Struggle between opposing forces |
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| Man against his own mind or emotions |
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| The persspective in which a story is told |
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| Person who takes part in the action of a literary work |
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| The narrator tells his own story using 1st person pronouns |
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| A story written to be performed by actors |
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| Reference to a person. place, event, literary work |
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| comparison of two unlike objects |
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| comparison of two unlike objects using like or as |
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| Type of figurative language: Nonhuman subject is given human qualities |
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| The writers attitude towards the subject or characters |
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| Writing of speech that appeals to the five senses |
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| The imaginary voice consumed by the writer of a poem |
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| Conversation between characters |
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| Central message, concern, or purpose in a literary work |
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| A feeling of uncetence or fear about the outcome of events |
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| Clues about what may happen later in the story |
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| Anything that represents an idea in literature |
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| Suspense at the of a chapter, book, or scene |
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| The repitition of initial vowel sounds |
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| The repitition of initial consonant sounds |
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| Writing divided into lines and stanzas that may use ryhme |
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| A story with animal characters that teaches a moral |
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| Fiction and Fantasy mixed with scientific facts |
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| Interupts the sequence of events ti relate to earlier events |
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| They describe how the play is to be performed or staged |
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| Word that is the sound it makes |
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| Story involving gods and goddesses to explain nateral events |
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