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Plot
The action or sequence of events in a story
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Conflict
Character vs. Character, Self, Society, Nature,God/Fate/Supernatural
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Rising Action
the series of struggles that builds a story or play toward a climax
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Climax
- Turning point
- the most intense point of the story. A series of struggles or conflicts build a story or play toward the climax
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Falling Action
the part of a play or story that leads from the climax or turning point to the resolution
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Resolution
the portion of the play or story in which the problem is solved
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Mood
The feeling a text arouses in the reader: happiness, peacefulness, sadness, and so on
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Author's Purpose
The specific reason a person has for writing; the goal of writing
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Point of View: 1st person
I
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Point of View: 3rd person
Laura
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Point of View: Omniscient
Allows the narrator to share thoughts and feelings of all characters
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Point of View: Limited
Allows the narrator to share the thoughts and feelings of one central character
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Theme
The statement about life that a writer is trying to get across in a piece of writing.
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Paraphrase
Restate in your own words what someone else has said
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Summarizing
Present the main points of an issue in a shortened form.
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Speaker/ Narrator
the person who is telling the story
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Foreshadowing
Giving hints or clues of what is to come later in a story
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Flashback
Returning to an earlier time for the purpose of making something in the present more clear
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Protagonist Character
The main character or hero of the story
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Dynamic Character
Dynamic: a character that undergoes personal development and change, whether through a gradual process or a crisis
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Static Character
Static: a character that remains unchanged throughout a work
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Antagonist Character
Antagonist: the person or force working againstthe protagonist, or hero, of the work
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Inference
Assumptions based on facts
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Main Idea
The point the author is making about a topic.
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Onomatopoeia
Use of a word that sound's suggest its meaning
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Personification
Nonhuman thing is given human characteristics
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Symbol
An object used to represent an idea
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Alliteration
The repetition of a letter sound in a word
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Simile
Compares two things used like or as
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Metaphor
Compares two things without using like or as
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Oxymoron
Connecting two words with opposite meanings
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Euphemism
A nicer way of saying things
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Paradox
A true statement saying opposite things
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Situational Irony
A great difference between the action and result
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Dramatic Irony
The reader sees the character's mistakes, but the character does not
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Verbal Irony
The writer says one thing but means another
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Rhetorical Question
A question asked that is not meant to be answered, only to make a point
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Allusion
A reference to a person, place, or thing
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Analogy
A comparison from something unfamiliar to something familiar
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Satire
Used to make fun or human weakness to change the subject
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Understatement
Calm language, opposite of exaggeration
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Rhyme Scheme
the pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem or song
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End Rhyme
A rhyme occurring in the last word or syllable of one line of poetry
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Internal Rhyme
a rhyme between words in the same line
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Couplet
A pair of lines in a verse that are the same length and that rhyme
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Quatrain
A stanza of four lines
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Stanza
A division of poetry named for the number of lines it contains
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Exposition (3 Types)
Setting, Character, Conflict
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3 Types of Tone
Imagery, Details, Diction
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2 Types of Diction
- Colloquial/ informal/ formal
- connotation denotation
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Fact vs. Opinion
- Fact: A thing that is indisputably the case.
- Opinion: view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.
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Sonnet
A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes
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Ambiguous
Having several possible meanings
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Intricate
Having a complicated or complex structure
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Quandary
A state of uncertainty
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