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| The perspective from which the story is told. There are four types. |
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| The story is told by a character in the story. Clue words are I, me, and my from the narrator. |
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| 3rd person Objective Point of View |
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| The story is told by an outside narrator, who only knows characters' words and actions. (No thoughts). |
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| 3rd person Limited Point of View |
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| The story is told by an outside narrator who knows the thoughts of only 1-2 charcters. |
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| 3rd person Omniscient Point of View |
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| The story is told by an outside narrator who knows the thoughts/feelings of all characters. (God-like) |
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| The time, place, culture, and mood of a story. |
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| Time of day, date, month, year, and decade when a story takes place. |
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| The overall feeling the reader gets in the setting of a book, based on clues from the author. |
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| The people or animals beings in a story. |
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| The main/central character |
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| The character that brings conflict to the protagonist. |
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| A character that changes, learns, and grows. |
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| A character that goes through no major change in the story. |
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| A person place or idea/thing. |
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| Describes a verb, often end in-ly, but not always. |
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| The dictionary definition of a word-its basic meaning. |
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| The feeling we associate with words. |
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| Punctuation used in contractions and possessives. |
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| Punctuation used when separating items in a list and following a dependent clause to separate it from an independent clasue. |
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| When the opposite of what you expect happens-a surprise or "twisting" ending. |
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| Comparing two unlike things "like or as." |
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| Over-exaggeration for effect. Exaggerating time, distance, size, and amount. |
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| Comparing two unlike things without using like, or as. Saying something is something else. |
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| Giving an inanimate object human characterists. |
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| A reference to a famous person, place, event, idea, book, movie, or song. |
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