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the structure of interrelated actions, consciously selected and arranged by the author

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Story Elements - Plot - Main Events - Literacy Short Clips

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choice of words, especially with regard to correctness, clearness, or effectiveness.

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the background information on the characters and setting explained at the beginning of the story

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the section of a story that leads toward its climax.

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the decisive moment, or turning point, at which the rising action of the play is reversed to falling action.

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the period after the dramatic confrontation of the climax.

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the end of the story.

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the time and place in which a story is told.

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The protagonist works toward the central story goals, while the antagonist works against the goals.

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More precisely, conflict means thwarted, endangered, or opposing desire.

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

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

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

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Connotation: the use of a word to suggest a different association than its literal meaning.
Denotation: the objective meaning of a word.

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

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expresses the writer's attitude toward or feelings about the subject matter and audience

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is the atmosphere of the narrative.

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a scene that takes place before a story begins.

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

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

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OSU School of Writing, Literature and Film

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"What Is Parallelism?": Oregon State Guide to Grammar

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

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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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the most open and flexible POV available to writers.

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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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a comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated.

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a version of metaphor that extends over the course of multiple lines, paragraphs, or stanzas of prose or poetry.

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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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exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

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symbolic meaning attributed to natural objects or facts.

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OSU 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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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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Euphemism || A Figure of Speech in English

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in which an object or circumstance from unrelated context is referred to covertly or indirectly.

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OSU 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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the repetition of vowel sounds across a line of text or poetry.

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What is Assonance? || Literary Device Lectures

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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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Oregon State University - School of Writing, Literature and Film

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

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is an element of an artistic work, saying, or idea that has become overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect, even to the point of being trite or irritating, especially when at some earlier time it was considered meaningful or novel.

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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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a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings

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Pun | Figure of Speech | Pun Examples and with Explanation | Pun Literary Device |English Literature

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

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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.

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the representation of persons in narrative and dramatic works.

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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.

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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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a character in a fictional work with depth or a complex personality.

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the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.

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Ethos, Pathos, and Logos | Rhetoric | The Nature of Writing

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the character or emotions of a speaker or writer that are expressed in the attempt to persuade an audience.

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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.