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Discription: The author's attitude towards a subject

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Definition: What happens in a story.

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Plot Mountain! | The Plot Diagram Song | Scratch Garden

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Definition: a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid

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Simile Lesson | Classroom Language Arts Video

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Verbal Irony: The speaker intends to be understood as meaning something that contrasts with the literal or usual meaning of what he says.

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What is verbal irony? - Christopher Warner

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Direct characterization: The writer makes direct statements about a character's personality and tells the reader or viewer what the character is like.
Indirect characterization: consists of the author showing the audience what kind of person a character is through the character's thoughts, words, and deeds.

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Direct & Indirect Characterization - Instructional Video

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Internal Conflict: Internal conflict is when a character struggles with their own opposing desires or beliefs.
External Conflict: External conflict sets a character against something or someone beyond their control.

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External vs Internal Conflict | Does your story need both?

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Definition: a temporary state of mind or feeling.

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Definition:  Diction refers to the choice of words in a particular situation, while syntax determines how the chosen words are used to form a sentence.

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Rhetorical Devices: Syntax, Diction, Imagery, Tone, & Voice

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DENOTATION: The direct definition of the word that you find in the dictionary.
CONNOTATION: The emotional suggestions of a word, that is not literal.

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Explaining Connotation and Denotation with Definitions and Examples

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Definition:  to focus one's mind on or vividly remember a past time or incident

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Definition: be a warning or indication of a future event.

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Definition: the irony of something happening that is very different to what was expected.

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Definition: occurs when the audience knows something that the characters don't.

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Definition: the narrator is a person in the story, telling the story from their own point of view.

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Definition: a little-used technique of narrative in which the action is driven by a character ascribed to the reader, one known as you.

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Definition:  the narrator reports the events that take place without knowing the motivations or thoughts of any of the characters.

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Definition:  a narrative viewpoint where the story is told from the close perspective of one character.

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Definition: This is a common form of third-person narration in which the teller of the tale, who often appears to speak with the voice of the author himself

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Definition: the main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, or other literary work.

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Metaphor: a figure of speech comparing two unlike things without using like or as
Extended Metaphor:  a metaphor introduced and then further developed throughout all or part of a literary work, especially a poem

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Definition: involves two characters struggling against each other.

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Definition: a type of conflict that takes place inside a character's mind.

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Definition: when a protagonist has a strong belief against the majority of the community or surroundings and decides to act on it.

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Definition: an external struggle positioning the character against an animal or a force of nature.

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Definition:  a conflict that occurs when the protagonist finds himself or herself pitted against a vengeful god or powerful supernatural force.

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Definition: a type of literary conflict in which a character faces technology (such as a robot, a machine, or a mechanical failure) and must prevail against it.

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Definition: the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

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Definition: exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

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Definition: a mental image or other kinds of sense impressions

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Definition: the idea that things represent other things.

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Definition: a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

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Definition: the act or an instance of placing two or more things side by side often to compare or contrast or to create an interesting effect

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Oregon State University - School of Writing, Literature and Film

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"What is Juxtaposition?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Definition: the repetition of an initial consonant sound in words that are in close proximity to each other.

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Definition: relatively close juxtaposition of similar sounds especially of vowels

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Definition:  brief but purposeful references, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature.

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Definition: a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought.

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Definition: a widely used saying or expression that contains a figurative meaning that is different from the phrase's literal meaning.

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Static: Static means that the character doesn't go through a change.
Flat: Flat refers to the character's personality — one-dimensional.

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Dynamic: one who learns a lesson or changes as a person
Round: characters as described by the course of their development in a work of literature.

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Definition: Exposition is a passage in a piece of literature or a work that is used to introduce elements of the narrative, such as background information, settings, events, and characters to help the reader progress through the novel.

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Protagonist: The main character of a story.
Antagonist: a character in a story who is presented as the chief foe of the protagonist.

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Definition: the time and geographic location within a narrative, either non-fiction or fiction.

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Definition:  a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest.

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Definition: turning point of a narrative work is its point of highest tension and drama, or it is the time when the action starts during which the solution is given.

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Definition:  the section of the plot following the climax, in which the tension stemming from the story's central conflict decreases and the story moves toward its conclusion.

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Definition: the act or process of resolving