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It is what happens in a story, the main events.

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Story Elements - Plot - Main Events - Literacy Short Clips

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Rhetoric refers to the study and uses of written, spoken and visual language.

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What does RHETORIC mean? What is the meaning of rhetoric? English word definition.

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Ethos- Focuses attention on the writer's or speaker's trustworthiness.

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The part of the story that: gives background information, tells the setting, the characters, and the main conflict.

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The section of the story that leads toward its climax.

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The point of highest dramatic tension or a major turning point in the action

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Actions and events that occur after the climax.

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The end of the story.

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The time and place in which a story is being told.

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Protagonist is the good guy in the story while antagonist is the bad guy.

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The struggle between opposing forces in a story.

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When a character struggles with their own opposing desires or beliefs.

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-man vs man (The lion king)
-man vs society (Hungry games)
-man vs nature (Castaways)
-man vs technology (Wall-E)
Sets a character against something or someone beyond their control.

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The main idea or message about the story.

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The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.

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The set of rules that determines the arrangement of words in a sentence.

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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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(ENGLISH) What are Denotation and Connotation? | #iQuestionPH

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The author's attitude toward his/her audience and characters or subject.

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A mood is a feeling that can refer to the emotional state of mind of a person/character or the story.

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A flashback is a transition in a story to an earlier time.

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A narrative device in which suggestions or warnings about events to come are dropped or planted.

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Parallelism is a literary device in which parts of the sentence are grammatically the same, or are similar in construction.

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The vantage point from which a story is presented.

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A narrator is a person in the story, telling the story from their own point of view. (Uses "I")

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The reader is immersed into the narrative as a character involved in the story (Uses "you")

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

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A narration style that gives the perspective of a single character.

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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, assumes an omniscient (all-knowing) perspective on the story being told: diving into private thoughts, narrating secret or hidden events.

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A figure of speech comparing two, unlike things that are often introduced by like or as.

He runs as fast as a cheetah.
I moved like lightning when I saw the mouse crawl across the floor.

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A metaphor compares and equates two things that are not alike. An extended metaphor is a version of a metaphor that extends over the course of multiple lines, paragraphs, or stanzas of prose or poetry.

Metaphor- She is drowning in a sea of grief.
Extended metaphor- "Cause baby you're a firework Come and show them what you're worth Make them go oh, oh, oh. As you shoot across the sky."

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Personification is a poetic literary device in which non-living things are given human traits.

-The walls were talking.
-The stairs screamed in agony as he began to climb them.

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A figure of speech that is an intentional exaggeration for emphasis or comic effect.

-I have told you a million times to clean your room.

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Symbolism is the idea that things represent other things.

-The flag still flew high in the sky. Flag- strength, freedom.
-She wore a white wedding gown. White- peace, innocents, purity.

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It is a rhetorical term that describes words or phrases that, when placed together, create paradoxes or contradictions.

-Jumbo shrimp, Bitter Sweet, Deafening Silence

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A euphemism is the substitution of a less offensive or agreeable expression for an expression that may offend or suggest something unpleasant.

-"We're going to have to let you go" Really saying: "YOU ARE FIRED!"
-Friendly Fire. Really: In the army, they have to kill their own people.

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An implied or indirect reference especially in literature.

-He is a real Romeo.
-He slapped like Will.
- He's got the Midas touch.

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The repetition of vowel sounds across a line of text or poetry.

- The tide rises, the tide falls.
- The Fat Cat Sat On A Mat inside a Hat.

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Alliteration is the repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in words closed together.

- She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
- How much could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

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A scenario or expression that is used excessively, to the point that it is considered unoriginal.

-pretty as a picture
-sweet as a pie
-love is blind

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A widely used saying or expression that contains a figurative meaning that is different from the phrase's literal meaning.
-It's raining cats and dogs
-I lost my head.

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Idioms | Award Winning Teaching Video | What Is An Idiom? | Figurative Language

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A play on words that sound the same or similar is usually used for comic effect.
-Puns involving animals are amooseing.
-The sign on the lawn at the lawn rehab facility said: stay off the grass.

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What is a Pun? Definition with Examples | Figures of Speech

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The use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning.

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When someone says one thing but really means the opposite.

Ex: Telling a quiet group, "Don't everybody speak all at once"

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

Ex: A fire station burns down

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A literary device by which the audience's or reader's understanding of events or individuals in a work surpasses that of its characters.

Ex: Girl in horror film hides in closet where the killer just went

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To persuade an audience by purposely evoking certain emotions to make them feel the way the author wants them to feel.

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To appeal to the audiences' sense of reason or logic.

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Characterization is a name for the methods a writer uses to reveal a character's values, feelings, goals, etc. to readers.

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Consists of the author telling the audience what a character is like.

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The author showing the audience what kind of person a character is through the character's thoughts, words, and deeds.

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Is one that does not undergo important change in the course of the story, remaining essentially the same at the end

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A character who undergoes some important change in the course of the story.

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Two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of a work.

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Characters as described by the course of their development in a work of literature.