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| "ground rules" of a story, plot |
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| introduces characters, situation, some hint of the conflict |
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| what leads up to the conflict or gets the conflict moving |
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| turning point, important revaluation of truth |
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| release of emotional attention, moves us towards conclusion |
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| results in a new, stabilized situation or understanding |
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| when a reader knows something that the character doesn't |
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| voice that tells the story (NOT THE AUTHOR) |
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| not the character, but the recognizable author voice/ sense that a story is intelligent and ordered |
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| the way a character speaks his/her attitude towards a subject |
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| persons represented in a literary work interpreted by the readers having moral, intellectual, and emotional qualities |
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| built on a single idea, not much detail |
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| complex, subtle, as hard to describe as a real person, ability to change |
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| main character, plot follows him or her |
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| character opposes the protagonist |
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| something that signifies something, all words are symbols; can be word phrase or image |
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| the general idea that a work converys |
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| any representation of inanimate nature depicts that ascribes them human capabilities |
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| italian for "little room"; paragraph in a poem |
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| petty without an obvious structure or pattern |
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| greek for "mask" ; the first person speaker in a poem, a fictional character, not the author |
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| the voice we hear when reading the poem |
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| a poem uttered by a single expressing a state of mind, perception, thought, or feeling |
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| a peom that tells a story |
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| a way of saying something using figures of speech, words mean something different from the original meaning |
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| figurative language that create a mental images |
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| a comparison things using "like" or "as" |
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| an implicit comparison between unlikely things |
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| a thing that is treated with uman qualities |
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| when a line break creates two different sets of meaning |
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| when a line of poetry ends with a period, comma, or any other thing |
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| referencing a literary work without outwardly referencing it |
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