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The series of related events in a story, or play, sometimes called the story line.

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Story Elements - Plot - Main Events - Literacy Short Clips

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The beginning of the story. It is where the characters and setting are introduced.

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A related series of incidents in a literary plot that builds toward the point of greatest interest.

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the most intense, exciting, or important point of something

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the period after the dramatic confrontation of the climax.

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the resolution is at the end of the story. It occurs after the climax.

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the time and place a story was told

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central to the plot or the conflict of the story

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generally the bad guys.

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As a problem. Its opposing desire is when the character wants something but something or someone gets in the way

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

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A struggle that takes place between the main character and some outside force.

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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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DENOTATIONS & CONNOTATIONS | English Lesson

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

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

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Foreshadowing | Definition & Examples of Foreshadowing

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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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The vantage point from which a story is presented.

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A story's point of view | Reading | Khan Academy

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The telling of a story in the grammatical first person the perspective

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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 character

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A method of storytelling in which the narrator knows only the thoughts and feelings of a single character, while other characters are presented only externally.

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Perspective on the story being told: diving into private thoughts, narrating secret or hidden events.

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Conflict involves stories where characters are against each other

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When the protagonist is placed in opposition with society

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A character is set in opposition to nature. This can mean the weather, the wilderness, or a natural disaster.

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A character is in conflict with some kind of technology.

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The main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel or short 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 crawling across the floor.

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Comparison of two unlike things without using like or as.
An extended metaphor is a metaphor that counties over serval lines.

Metaphor- She is drowning in a grief

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

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Giving human things human characteristics

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

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An over exaggeration of emotions, and over statement.

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.

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A symbol is a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning and stands for smoothing more than itself.

Symbolism is using symbols to represents qualities or ideas.

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Combines two opposites or contradictory terms in a brief phase.

Jumbo shirmp
bitter sweet

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Oxymoron - Figure of Speech | Definition with Examples

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

"we're going to have to let you go"

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Making a refence to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, sports, science, culture.

He is a real Romeo.

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Allusion: Explanation, Effects, Example | AP Lang Rhetorical Strategies

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The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds.

The tied rises, the tide falls

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What is assonance? 🤔 | Assonance in English | Learn with examples

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

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood

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

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A word or phrase that is over used and has became lifeless.

Love is blind
Pretty as a picture
sweet as pie

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An expression that con not be interpreted literally

Its raining cats and dogs
I lost my head

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

Puns involving animals are amooseing

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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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OSU School of Writing, Literature and Film

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

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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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irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended

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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
Examples
A girl in a horror film hides in a closet where the killer just went
In snow white, the audience knows the apple is posin but she doesn't

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the creation or construction of a fictional character.
the creation or construction of a fictional character.
the creation or construction of a fictional character.
the creation or construction of a fictional character.
the creation or construction of a fictional character.

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when an author describes a character in a straightforward manner,

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a type of literary device that reveals details about a character without stating them explicitly

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a type of character who remains largely the same throughout the course of the storyline

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one who learns a lesson or changes as a person

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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.

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the study and uses of written, spoken and visual language

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How to use rhetoric to get what you want - Camille A. Langston

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Focuses attention on the writer's or speaker's trustworthiness

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

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to appeal to the audiences' sense of reason or logic