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| a person or character who tells a story |
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| a vantage point from which a story is told |
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| part of a story poem or play that presents events that happened at an earlier time |
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| the time and place in which it happens |
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| a person or animal who takes part in the action of a literary work |
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| the main character in a story |
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| a struggle between 2 people, animals or things in a literary work |
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| an unexamined, false idea about a type of person or group of people |
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| a version of a language spoken by people of a particular place, time, or group |
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| a brief story, usually told to make a point |
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| a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken or written about as if it were another |
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| means literally, "similarity" |
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| a feeling of expectations, anxiousness, or curiousity |
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| the point of the highest interest and suspense in a literary work |
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| a comparison of things that are alike in some ways but different in others |
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| the attempt to render in art or literature an accurate portrayal of reality |
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| the act of hinting at events that will happen later in a poem, story, or play |
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| a story passed by word of mouth from generation to generation |
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| a thing that stands for or represents both itself and something else |
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| provides background info about the characters, setting, or conflict |
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| the event that introduces the central conflict |
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| develops the conflict to a high point of intensity, which is the climax |
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| all the events that follow the climax |
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| the point at which the central conflict is is ended or resolved |
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| any material that follows the resolution and that ties up loose ends |
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