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| The methods, speech, etc. an author uses to reveal the people in a book. |
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| The point of greatest dramatic tension or excitement in a story. Point in a story where there is no turning back. |
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| A novel or short story in which the main character or characters grow, mature, or understand the world in adult terms. |
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| A meaning of a word that carries a suggested meaning different from actual definition. |
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| A story made up of a succesion of loosely connected incidents, rather than through an integrated, chronological plot. |
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| The background information that the reader has to know and/or understand before reading the play or novel. |
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| Additional action that follows the climax. |
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| An idea, statement, or conclusion that is informed that is formed for an entire group or category. |
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| The pattern of events in a literary work; what happens. |
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| The position or vantage point, determined by the author, from which the story seems to come to the reader. |
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| What is the third person limited. |
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| Where the reader only knows what the main character knows. |
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| What is third person omniscient? |
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| Where the reader knows everything about all characters. |
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| The part of the story's plot that adds complications to the problems and increases the readers' interest. |
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| When and where the story takes place. |
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| The central or dominant idea behind the story; the most important aspect that emerges from how the book treats its subject. |
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