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| A tale in verse of prose on which the characters represent abstract or moral qualities. |
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| A refrence- whether explicit or implicit, to history, the bible, myth, literature, that suggests the meaning of details to the story |
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| A person opposing the protagonist in a dramatic or narrative work |
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| a leading character who is not like a hero, perfrct or even outstanding but is rather ordinary and representative of the more or less average person |
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| A plot or character element that recurs in cultural or cross cultural myths such as the quest |
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| A fictional person who acts, appears, or is referred to in a work |
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| the fictional/artisic creation presentation of a fictional personage |
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the turning point
the point of greatest intensity or interest |
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| a clash of purposes or viewpoints in a story, novel, usually the action develops from a basic conflict |
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| the evaluation work writtin by professional |
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| aka conclusion or catatrophe.. the end of a story |
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| an authors choice of words |
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| A plot device in which a character holds a position or has an expectation is reversed or fulfilled in a way that the character did not expect but the reader did expect |
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| That part of the structure that sets the scene, introduces the characteres, and establishes the situation at the begining of the story |
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| the action of a story following the climax but before the conclusion |
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| Language that departs from the stritly literal to achieve special effects. |
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| a device that permits the writer to say one thing and mean another.. such as a metaphor, simile |
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| a device where a scene from the past is inserted into the present |
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| early clues about what will happen later in the story |
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| the use of figurative language to evoke a feeling, or to describe a object |
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A situation that depends on a discrepency between what is apparent and what is real
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| a writer says one thing and means another |
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| a reader preceives a characters mistakes |
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| in which there is a discrepency between purpose and result |
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| a perspective pinned to a single character |
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a figure of speech in which 2 unlike words are compared but in which no word of comparison is used.
like or as |
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| a person who tells the story |
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| a perspective that can be seen from one characters view. |
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| the arrangments if the action, the sequence of events in a story |
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| the main character or hero of a dramatic work |
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| action of a play which builds toward the climax or turning point |
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| the time and place of a story |
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| a word of phrase that is used to stand or an idea |
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