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| a major seection of a play |
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| a force working against the main character |
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| the reason an author creates a particular work |
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| a story told from someone else |
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| two events are related as cause and effect when one event brings about the other |
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| a person, animal,or imaginary creature that takes part in the action |
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| a charicters personality that are permanant |
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| all the techniques writers use to develop characters |
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| the order of events that are happening |
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| In the plot of a story or play, is the point of maximum interest in the turning point |
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| a struggle between opposing forces |
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| when a character struggles against some opposing force |
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| a struggle that is within a character |
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| a form of literature meant to be performed by actors before an audience |
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| a short peice of writing on a single subject |
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| which is usually found at the beginning of a story or play, serves to introduce the main characters |
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| those events that are leading from the climax to the resolution |
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| a story that takes place in an unreal, imaginary world |
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| writing that tells an imaginary story |
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| a categorie of literature |
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| an educated guess from the evidence in the story |
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| a contrast between what is expeted and what actually exists or happens |
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| the writers principle idea what the story is mmostly about |
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| the person who tells the story |
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| a story's plot is the sequence of related events that make up a story |
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| the central character in a story, play, or novel |
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| when all of the plots loose ends are tied up and the rising action is resulved |
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| the events in a story leading from the exposition to the climax |
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| the order in which events or ideas are presented |
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| time and place of the action |
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| a brief work of fiction usually read in one sitting |
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| the message about life or human nature that is told by literary work |
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| the name attached to the piece of writing |
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| fiction based on real or imagined scientific developments |
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| a message suggested in the story through character's action plotting, plot events, or title |
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| told directly in the story |
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| a short work of nonfiction that saus tjpigjts |
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| combining several peices of information to make an inference |
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| a repetition of a sound or letter at the beginning of words |
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| a short, entertaining account about a person or an event |
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| a form of nonfiction in which a person tells a story of his own life |
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| characters who change little, if at all throughout the story |
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| characters who change significantly throughout the story |
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| what two or more things have in common |
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| familiar words surrounding an unfamiliar word which often help the reader understand the meaning of the unfamiliar word |
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| the process of pointing out differences between things |
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| a writer creates a picture in the reader's imagination |
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| words a character speaks in a drama |
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| an interruption of the action in the plot sequence taking the reader to an earlier age |
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| a hint that suggests future events in a story |
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| a hint that suggests future events in a story |
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| fiction that is sent in the past |
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| the feeling a literary work conveys to readers |
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| the reason why a character acts a particular way |
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| writing that tells a story |
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| work of fiction that is longer and more complex than a short story |
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| story is told from a particular point of veiw |
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| any physical object that is used in a drama or play |
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| the level and raised platform on which a drama is performed |
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| instructions to the actors, director and stafe view |
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| a generization about a group of people |
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| telling the main ideas in a piece of writing |
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| a person, place, an object, or an action that stands for something beyod itself |
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| the events of the plot immediately before the falling action |
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