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| is a brief work of fiction |
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| is the sequence of events that make up a story. Plot is divided into five stages |
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| the scene is a set and background information is provided |
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| the center conflict, or struggle, id provided |
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| the high point of the conflict |
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| the conflict concludes and loose ends get tied up |
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| writers directly state a character's personality traits |
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| Indirect characterization |
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| a writer uses a character's actions, thoughts, and feelings to suggest a character's traits |
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| a character who exhibits many traits, including faults as well as virtues |
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| a character who seems to have only a single surface or aspect to her personality |
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| First-person point of view |
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| the narrator is one of the characters |
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| Third-person point of view |
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| the narrator does not participate in the action |
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| The time and place in which the action occurs |
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| anything that stands for or represents something else |
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| is the writers attitude toward his or her audience and subject |
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| is the general term for literary techniques that portray differences between appearance and reality, or expectation and results |
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| Central messages about life |
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| is the reader's feeling of curiosity, uncertainty, or even anxiety about the outcome of events in a story |
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| in a story is the struggle between opposing forces |
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| occurs with in a character who experiences opposining ideas or feelings |
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| occurs between characters or between a character and a force or nature |
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| is the form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group |
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| is the use in a literary work of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur |
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| someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission |
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| a person or an animal that takes part in the action of the literary work |
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| a character who opposes the main character |
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| able to be touched or felt |
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| misgivings about something one fells wrong |
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| in a mild and soothing way |
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| having a strange, bizarre design |
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| expressions of sympathy with a grieving person's pain |
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| raiders; people who take goods by force |
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| lack of vigor; weakness; weariness |
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| mixture of things not usually found together |
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| producing a sharp sensation of smell |
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| person who is amazingly talented or intelligent |
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| in a kind and well-meaning way |
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| things given or granted as privileges |
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| established rules or customs |
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| with a trim, casual look; dashingly |
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| moving swiftly and with great force |
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| extremely troubled, confused, distracted |
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| continuous firing of artillery |
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| having a worn look, as from sleeplessness |
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| showing contempt or ridicule |
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| place devoted to religious seclusion |
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| people who are not Christians, Muslins, or Jews |
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| continuing in a stubborn way to do what is wrong or harmful; improper; willful |
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| expresses vivid thoughts and feelings |
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| uses techniques of drama, such as speaker and conflict, to tell s story |
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| is the repletion of initial consonant sounds |
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| is the use of words that imitate sound |
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| is the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two of more stressed syllables |
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| correspondence of sounds; harmony of sounds |
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| the most common rhythm in English poetry, consisting of five iambs in each line. "The quality of mercy is not strained" is an iambic pentameter |
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| is the use of any element of language-a sound, a word, a phrase, a clause, or a sentence-more than once |
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| is a regular pattern of rhyming words that appear at the ends of lines in a poem |
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| is a figure of speech in which like or as is used to make a comparison between ideas that are basically dissimilar |
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| is a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else |
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| is q type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics |
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| is writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses |
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| of a word is the set of ideas associated with it in addition to its explicit meaning |
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| is the descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reade |
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| is a three line verse form |
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| is a fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter |
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| is a pair of rhyming lines, usually of the same length and meter |
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