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Plot- The story line or order of events in a book, play, or movie.

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Rising Action- Rising action is the section of a story that leads toward its climax

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Climax- the turning point where the protagonist confronts the main conflict.

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Falling Action- Falling action refers to the period after the dramatic confrontation of the climax.

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Resolution- The resolution is the end of the story.

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

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Protagonist and Antagonist- The protagonist is the character who drives the action--the character whose fate matters most. antagonist the principal opponent or foil of the main character, who is referred to as the protagonist, in a drama or narrative.

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Conflict- the most intense part of the story often a turning point or a conclusion to the conflict.

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Internal Conflict- 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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Man VS. Man- character vs. character conflict

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Man VS. Society- A small group of individuals chooses to or is forced to fight against their society.

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Man VS. Nature- when the protagonist, either alone or together with the other characters, is in direct opposition to the forces of nature.

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Man VS. Technology- A type of literary conflict in which a character faces technology

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Theme- The main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores.

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

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

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Connotation / Denotation- An idea or feeling that a word invokes. The act or fact of denoting.

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Tone-  Writer's attitude toward or feelings about the subject matter and audience.

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Flashback- A scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story.

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Foreshadowing- Indication of a future event.

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Parallelism- A figure of speech in which two or more elements of a sentence have the same grammatical structure.

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POV-  The narrator's position in relation to a story being told.

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First person- The telling of a story in the grammatical first person from the perspective of an I.

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Second person- The action is driven by a character ascribed to the reader, one known as you.

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Third Person- Any story told in the grammatical third person without using I or we

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Third person limited- The narrator knows only the thoughts and feelings of a single character, while other characters are presented only externally.

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Third Person Omniscient- Often appears to speak with the voice of the author himself, assumes an omniscient.

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Simile-  A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as.

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Metaphor- Metaphor is a comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated.

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Extended Metaphor- A version of metaphor that extends over the course of multiple lines, etc.

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Personification- Attribution of personal qualities as a person or by the human form.

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

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Symbolism- The idea that things represent other things.

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Oxymoron- Describes words or phrases that, when placed together.

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Euphemism- A less offensive or agreeable expression for an expression that may offend or suggest something unpleasant.

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Allusion- Brief but purposeful references, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature.

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Assonance-  The repetition of vowel sounds across a line of text.

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Alliteration- Repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words in succession.

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Cliché- A trite phrase or expression.

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Idioms- Expression that contains a figurative meaning that is different from the phrase's literal meaning.

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Pun- Puns involve words with similar or identical sounds but with different meanings.

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Irony- 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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Verbal Irony- Verbal irony is a figure of speech.

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Situation Irony- 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- The description of a character's physical traits.

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Direct Characterization- The author telling the audience what a character is like.

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Indirect Characterization- The author showing the audience what kind of person a character is through the character's thoughts, etc.

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Static Character- One that does not undergo important change in the course of the story, remaining the same at the end.

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

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

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Rhetoric-  The art of speaking or writing effectively

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

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Pathos-  The appeal to emotion

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Logos- The appeal to logic