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A plot is the sequence of events that make up a story

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The introduction of the story where you get background information.

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the rising action is the section of the plot leading up to the climax, in which the tension stemming from the story's central conflict grows through successive plot developments.

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the point at which the highest level of interest and emotional response is achieved.

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The falling action of a story is 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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Direct comparison of two Unlike thing using "like" or "as".

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A direct comparison between two unlike things WITHOUT using "like" or "as"

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A version of metaphor that extend over the course of multiple lines, paragraphs, or stanzas of prose or poetry

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Giving a non-human thing human characteristics

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EXTREME exaggeration

Your mama is so ugly that they didn't giver her costume when she auditioned for star wars.

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A literary device that uses symbols, be they word, people mark, locations, or abstract ideas to represent something beyond the literal meaning

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Oregon State University - School of Writing, Literature and Film

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

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It occurs after the climax. It is when you learn what happens to the characters after the conflict is resolved.

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A setting is a time and place in which a story is told.

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The protagonist is the character who drives the action--the character whose fate matters most.

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the antagonist tend to be in conflict with one another the protagonist is the central character in a story

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Conflict is the central struggle between characters or competing forces

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Internal conflict is when a character struggles with their own opposing desires or beliefs. It happens within them, and it drives their development as a character.

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External conflict sets a character against something or someone beyond their control

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Man vs. man conflict, involves two characters struggling against each other.

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The man vs. society conflict denotes a story in which an individual (or a small group of individuals) chooses to or is forced to fight against their society or community

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"Man against nature" conflict is an external struggle positioning the character against an animal or a force of nature

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Man vs. technology is a type of literary conflict in which a character faces technology

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The central idea, topic, or point of a story, essay, or narrative.

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diction refers to the linguistic choices made by a writer to convey an idea or point of view or tell a story, in an effective way.

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

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Connotation is the use of a word to suggest a different association than its literal meaning, which is known as denotation.

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DENOTATIONS & CONNOTATIONS | English Lesson

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Many words will have the same denotation even if they tend to be used in different ways.

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DENOTATIONS & CONNOTATIONS | English Lesson

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attitude toward or feelings about the subject matter and audience.

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Analyzing tone through word choice | Reading | Khan Academy

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mood is a device that evokes certain feelings for readers through a work’s setting, tone, theme, and diction. It’s also referred to as the “atmosphere” of a piece.

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Flashbacks interrupt the chronological order of the main narrative to take a reader back in time to the past events in a character's life.

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Oregon State University - School of Writing, Literature and Film

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

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

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Parallelism is a rhetorical device that compounds words or phrases that have equivalent meanings so as to create a definite pattern.

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point of view, in literature, the vantage point from which a story is presented. Related Topics: narrative.

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OSU School of Writing, Literature and Film

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"What is Point of View?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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The telling of a story in the grammatical first person, i.e. from the perspective of an "I,

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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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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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A story written from the perspective of a single person often feels more intimate, because the reader has direct, unfiltered access to the thoughts, emotions, and perceptions of a single character.

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A rhetorical term that describes words or phrases that, when placed together, create paradoxes or contradictions

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Oregon State University - School of Writing, Literature and Film

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

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an appropriate expression used in the place of a phrase or words that may be found inappropriate or offensive

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is basically a reference to something else. It’s when a writer mentions some other work, or refers to an earlier part of the current work.

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Oregon State University - School of Writing, Literature and Film

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

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is the repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds within words, phrases, or sentences.

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Oregon State University - School of Writing, Literature and Film

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"What are Assonance and Consonance?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Alliteration is the repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words in succession whose purpose is to provide an audible pulse that gives a piece of writing a lulling, lyrical, and/or emotive effect.

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What is Alliteration? || Literary Device Lectures

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s a saying, image, or idea which has been used so much that it sounds terribly uncreative.

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Literary Terms Defined and Described 29: Cliché

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

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

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A pun is a literary device that is also known as a “play on words.” Puns involve words with similar or identical sounds but with different meanings.

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

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whenever a person says something or does something that departs from what they (or we) expect them to say or do.

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What is verbal irony? - Christopher Warner

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Verbal irony is a figure of speech. 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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Situational irony is the irony of something happening that is very different to what was expected

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

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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.