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It is what happens in a story, the main event

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The art of persuasion through communication.

Example:
- language designed to motivate, persuade, or inform.

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An argument based on the ethics or credibility of the person making the argument

Example:
-  A commercial about a specific brand of toothpaste says that 4 out of 5 dentists use it

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

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Is the section of a story that leads toward its climax.

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The turning point of the story where the problem reaches its point.

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The story begins to move to conclusion, or the resolution, at which point everything will be tied up or resolved.

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The story comes to a reasonable ending, not every story has a resolution

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The setting is the time and place in which a story is told.

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Protagonist is known as a "hero" in the story and an Antagonist is known as the "villain" in the story.

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When a character wants something but something else gets in the way. Maybe the character wants a thing but can't get it.

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

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Sets a character against something or someone beyond their control.

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Involves two characters struggling against each other

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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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An external struggle positioning the character against an animal or a force of nature

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When a protagonist is facing machines or technology (such as mechanical failure or robots) and must prevail against it.

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

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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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Defines the arrangement of words and sentences that are placed together.

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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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It is the stylistic means by which an author conveys his/her attitude(s) in a work of literature.

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Is a feeling that can refer to the emotional state of mind of a person/character or the atmosphere of a story.

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Is a scene that takes place before a story begins.

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Be a warning or indication of (a future event).

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Parallelism, in rhetoric, component of literary style in both prose and poetry, in which coordinate ideas are arranged in phrases, sentences, and paragraphs that balance one element with another of equal importance and similar wording.

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Point of view, in literature, the vantage point from which a story is presented.

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Point of View & Narrator's Perspective Lesson | Teaching Common Core Reading Skills

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

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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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Has a neutral narrator that is not privy to characters' thoughts or feelings.

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

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Is a method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story.

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Comparison using like or as.

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

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Comparison of two unlike things without using like or as.

- She is drowning in a sea of grief.

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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.

Example:
- Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare contrasts the deep love of Romeo and Juliet against the conflict of their families and sets up a happy ending for them.

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Is a rhetorical device that includes any content in an argument that is meant to appeal to logic.

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A extended metaphor is a metaphor that continues over several lines of text.

- Cause baby your a firework
Come on show them what you're worth
Make them go, oh, oh
As you shoot across the sky

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Giving non-human things human characteristics.
Example: The walls were talking.

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An over exaggeration of emotions, and over statement.

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

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A symbol is person, place, thing or event that has meaning by itself and also stands fir something for something more than itself.

Symbolism is using symbols to represents qualities or ideas.

Example- 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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Combines two opposites or contradictory terms in a free phrase.

Example- Jumbo shrimp, Bitter sweet, Deafening Silence

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A mile or indirect or expression used for one considered to be too hard o blunt when referring to something unpleasant or horrible. A way of making something not sound so bad.

Examples-
Euphemism " We're going to have to let you go "
Really saying you are FIRED!

Euphemism - Friendly fire
Really: In the army, they have killed their own people.

Euphemism: WWII Nazi- The final solution
Really: The total destructions/ murder of all Jews

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Make a refrence to someone or something that is known from histroy, liture, religion, sports, science, culture, etc.

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The repletion of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonants sounds.

Example: The tide rises, the tide falls
The fat cat sat on A Mat inside a Hat.

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The repetition of the same or similar initial consonants sounds in words closes together.

Example: She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Rich Robert runs ramped through the shiny streets killing giant mean monsters in his red rocket.

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What is alliteration? 🤔 | Alliteration in English | Learn with examples

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A word or a phrase that is over used and has become lifeless. Pretty as a picture
Sweet as a pie.
Love is blind.

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A cliché (pronounced 'klee-SHAY') is a saying, image, or idea which has been used so much that it sounds terribly uncreative. The word "cliché" was originally French for the sound of a printing plate, which prints the same thing over and over. Using clichés is considered bad writing and speaking because they make it sound like you didn't put any thought into your words. Good writers and speakers try to use thoughtful and original language rather than clichés in their work. Synonyms for cliché include platitudes and banalities.

II. Examples of Cliché

Because clichés are, by definition, common and overused, they can be found frequently but you may not notice them because we take them for granted. Here are a few examples:

This image of a cloud starts with a common cliché:
Every cloud has a silver lining
Which means that even in a bad situation, you can usually find something good.

The rest of the cloud is made of other popular clichés:

"Diamond in the rough": something or somebody with a lot of potential.

"Going bananas!": going crazy.

"Easy as pie": very easy.

"Cold as ice": very cold or not friendly.

"Take a chill pill": to relax.

"Don't judge a book by its cover": don't judge something based on its appearance.

"Driving me crazy!": annoying somebody to the point of almost insanity.

"Kid in a candy store": feeling happy about the things that surround you.

"Light as a feather": very very light.

"Happily ever after": the ending of all fairy tale romances, this is a typical ending where everybody is happy for the rest of their lives.

"When pigs fly!": something that is very unlikely to happen.

To describe falling in love:
She fell head over heels.
Another common characteristic of clichés is that they tend to simplify and dramatize. Rather than admitting that a story may not always have happiness or explaining that serious love takes time to develop, these clichés make the writing seem shallow and therefore un-interesting.

Clichés are sometimes ideas, images, or characters, rather than phrases. Here are a few examples of cliché characters:

"The Damsel in Distress": a young attractive woman who is incompetent and in need of someone else to rescue her.

"The Superhero": the man who saves the Damsel in Distress, often incredibly strong and good looking!

"Brooding Bad Boy": the boy from 'the other side of the tracks,' who needs someone caring to lead him to a better life.

"The Good Girl": the girl who saves the Brooding Bad Boy with her kindness and good heart.

III. The Importance of Cliché

Clichés are important because they express ideas and thoughts that are widespread and common within a culture, hence the phrase "cliché but true." Yet in our culture, we tend to dislike clichés because we place a high value on creativity, originality, and cleverness, rather than on repetition and using other people's words. Not all cultures feel this way though; in China, it is considered good to use clichés because Chinese culture places a higher value on tradition and looks down on individuality. But even in our culture, clichés are still very common in popular books, poems, movies, television shows, speeches, and advertisements.

IV. Examples of Clichés in Literature

It is important to remember that every cliché was once original and became overused only because it was such a popular idea at first. So, many clichés come from classic works.

Many clichés have their origins in classics like Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet:
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
This cliché is from Juliet's speech in which she claims that it does not matter that Romeo comes from her family's enemy house, the Montague. Like many Shakespeare quotes, this phrase was so creative when Shakespeare wrote it, that now other people have overused it-to mean that the names of things are not important compared to their qualities.
Forever and a day
This cliché is also derived from Shakespeare, as it first appeared in The Taming of the Shrew. Countless clichés were coined by Shakespeare, including:

All that glitters is not gold - (The Merchant of Venice)"

Jealousy is the green-eyed monster - (Othello)"

Melted into thin air - (The Tempest)

And many more. It is a compliment for a writer's work to become a cliché, but it is an insult to be accused of writing something cliché.

V. Examples of Cliché in Pop Culture

Although clichés should usually be avoided, they can be used for comedic effect or in works where originality and deep thought are not expected such as television shows, advertisements, and movies like romantic comedies and superhero blockbusters.

Conversely, the Old Spice commercials become funny by using the cliché of the perfect man, one often used in men's commercials:

Hello, ladies.
Look at your man.
Now back to me. Now back at your man. Now back to me.
Sadly, he isn't me.
But if he stopped using lady scented body wash...
...and switched to Old Spice, he could smell like he's me.
Look down. Back up. Where are you?
You're on a boat with the man your man could smell like.
What's in your hand? Back at me.
I have it.
It's an oyster with two tickets to that thing you love.
Look again. The tickets are now diamonds.
Anything is possible when your man smells like Old Spice and not a lady.
I'm on a horse.

And clichés are still alive and well in popular movies ("alive and well" is a cliché!). Consider the movie The Last Song:

" It is a story of second chances, first loves, and the moments in life that lead us back home. "

This movie is complete with the brooding teenage daughter, the father figure looking for a second chance, and the rambunctious younger brother, who is there just to provide comic relief. These are all clichés.
This movie may be cliché, but many people still enjoy it. For this reason, cliché is a matter of taste; critics may not like clichés, but they can still be part of enjoyable entertainment.

VI. Related Terms

Cliché vs. Archetype

An archetype is an image or character which is used over and over in literature and art and may not seem cliché because it represents a universal truth about life or a universal aspect of human psychology. The line between an archetype and a cliché is thin: both archetypes and clichés are frequently found in compositions. Whereas clichés are considered overused and unwanted, archetypes are accepted and only cliché if they are represented in cliché images and words.

One such archetype is the hero-- Superman, Harry Potter, Luke Skywalker, Jesus. This archetype is so common throughout history and all over the world that you would think it would be cliché, but it has such psychological appeal and depth, and makes for such good stories, that we don't care how cliché it is. Archetypes, unlike clichés, provide a frame for a character or story which is then shaped and presented in an original way by the storyteller.

VII. In Closing

Clichés are, by definition, prevalent phrases or ideas in literature, advertisements, and numerous other forms. They are common in romance novels, parodies, and television. Although critics advise against clichés, they remain popular.

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An expression that cannot be interpreted literally.

Example:
It's raining cats and dogs.
I lost my head.

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Play on world based on multiple meanings of a single world or words that sound alike or mean different things.

Examples:
Puns involving animals are amooseing.
The sign on the lawn at the drug rehab facility said: stay off the grass

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Irony is the opposite of what is expected.

Example:
-A fire station burns down
-A post on Facebook complains about how useless Facebook is

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When someone says one thing but really means the opposite.

Example:
stepping out into a hurricane and saying, “What nice weather we're having!”
Telling a quiet group, "Don't everybody speak all at once."

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Takes place when the opposite of what is expected actually happens.

Example:
- a fire station burning down
- someone posting on Twitter that social media is a waste of time.

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When the reader knows what is going to happen before a character does.

Example:

In a scary movie, the character goes into a house they think is empty, but the audience knows the killer is in the house. This increases the suspense.

In Beauty and the beast, the audience knows from the beginning that the beast is a prince, but Bell does not.

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Characterization  is the representation of persons in narrative and dramatic works.

Examples:
- Bill was short and fat, and his bald spot was widening with every passing year.

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The writer makes direct statements about a character's personality and tells the reader or viewer what the character is like.

Example:
- Old man Humphrey never liked children, even when he himself was a child.

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The process of describing a character through that character's thoughts, actions, speech, and dialogue.

Example:
- John snapped at the man without warning

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Any character who does not change by the end of the story.

Example:
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A character who undergoes significant internal change throughout the course of a story.

Example:
- Jack, Lord of the Flies

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

Example:
Crabbe and Goyle from Harry Potter because they both played a role in the book/ movie but we never learned much about them.

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Deep and layered character in a story

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Two things being placed close together with a contrasting effect.