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| explicit, particular, or definite: please be more specific |
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| facts mentioned one by one; specified information |
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| a broad idea, message, or moral of a story. The message may be about life, society, or human nature. |
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| not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice; based on facts; unbiased: an opinion |
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| a brief restatement of main points |
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| the position of the narrator in relation to the story, as indicated by the narrator's outlook from which the events are depicted and by the attitude toward the characters |
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| a distinctive literary type |
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| the subject of a piece of writing |
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| something that is timeless, and that all people can relate to; for instance, free will vs. fate, good vs. evil. |
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| A story or legend forming part of an oral tradition like Johnny Appleseed or the Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
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| Stories with speculative scientific discoveries or developments, environmental changes, space travel, or life on other planets, forms part of the plot or background. |
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| a story that takes place during a notable period in history, and usually during a significant event in that period; often presents actual events from the point of view of fictional people living in an important time period. |
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| when literature resembles real life (without fantastic elements) |
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| something someone writes about his or her own experience |
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| something someone writes about someone else's experiences |
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| A traditional, typically ancient story dealing with supernatural beings, ancestors, or heroes with fantastic powers |
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| A usually short narrative making a point about how to live; often using animals as characters that speak and act like humans. |
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| ordinary speech or writing, without metrical structure or rhyme |
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| piece of literature written in meter; verse |
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| literary work produced by the imagination |
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| the form of any story or writing whose descriptions are understood to be fact. |
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| a work intended to be read aloud or memorized and performed in front of an audience |
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| an argument, in which the writer uses words to convince the reader of a writer’s view(s) regarding an issue |
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| writing that attempts to explain a subject using details |
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| the reason an author writes something |
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| dynamic (complex) character |
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A character who shows different sides
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| the person who tells a story |
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| A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword) |
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| figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated, as in the use of Washington for the United States government or of the sword for military power |
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