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| An aside is a dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience or to another character |
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| a character who is presented as a contrast to a second character |
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| Monologue is an long speech by one person addressed to other characters |
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| An oxymoron is a self-contradicting word or group of words |
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| A pun is a literary device that is also known as a “play on words.” |
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| a long speech in which a character expresses his thoughts or feelings aloud while alone upon the stage |
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| element of literature that introduces the key background information of a narrative. |
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| the time, place, and environment in which a story occurs. |
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| the highest point of tension in a storyline, often depicted by a confrontation between the protagonist and antagonist. |
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| all the events that happen in a story on the way to the climax. |
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| the period of time in a story that follows the climax and leads to the resolution. |
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| the event that sets the main character or characters on the journey that will occupy them throughout the narrative. |
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| a repeated pattern—an image, sound, word, or symbol that comes back again and again within a particular story. |
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| a literary and theatrical device in which the reader or audience knows more than the characters they are following. |
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| a statement in which the speaker's words are incongruous with the speaker's intent |
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| when the outcome of a situation is contrary to or different from what is expected. |
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| he general feeling or atmosphere that a piece of writing creates within the reader. |
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| he mood implied by an author's word choice and the way that the text can make a reader feel. |
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| the final plot points that occur after a story's climax and falling action. |
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| love, redemption, forgiveness, coming of age, revenge, good vs evil, bravery and hardship. |
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| the character or force that opposes the protagonist. |
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| the main character in a work of literature |
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| when a character faces an obstacle to their central want or need and is used as a tool in literature to move the story forward. |
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| f a character mentions offhandedly that bad things always happen to them in autumn, then the observant reader will be alert when the leaves in the story begin to fall. |
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| a figure of speech that compares two unlike things using the words “like” or “as.” |
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| a figure of speech that directly compares one thing to another for rhetorical effect |
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| gives human traits non-human things |
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