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| ordinary writing; not poetry |
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| not true; imaginative writing |
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| true story; factual reporting |
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| fictional story of unreal world and characters |
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| fiction based on scientific fact |
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| true story of a person's life written by another person |
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| true story of a person's life written by the same person |
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| brief work of fictional prose |
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| the arrangement or sequence of events |
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exposition (introduction)
rising action
climax
falling action
resolution or denouement |
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| the high point or turning point; the point of greatest emotional interest |
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| vision or perspective through which a story is told |
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man vs man
man vs nature
man vs society
man vs self |
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type;
classification;
category |
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| collection of literary works |
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| technique of showing what a person is like |
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| people, animals, or strange beings |
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| one against the main character |
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| one who changes as a result of events in the story |
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| remains the same and does not change |
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| fully developed character with good and bad traits |
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| one-sided character not fully developed |
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| has expected traits of a group, not an individual |
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| reason or reasons for a character's behavior |
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| point at which a reader's interest is aroused |
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curiosity about what will happen next |
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| clues about what will happen next |
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| episode which interrupts the action and shifts to an earlier time |
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| contrast between what appears to be and what really is |
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| contrast between what is said and what is meant |
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| a happening that is opposite of what is expected |
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| the audience knows more than the characters |
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| verbal irony in which praise is actually insulting |
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| making fun of something to prove a point |
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| something that stands for or represents something else |
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| reference to something outside the story (from mythology, another literary work, historical events, etc.) |
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| an element that is repeated; a recurring important idea or image |
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a sudden revealing of a truth
(light bulb) |
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| feeling that is produced in the reader |
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| way the author feels; author's attitude |
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| underlying meaning; the message |
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| the way the story is written |
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