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Plot- Plot is the series of events that make up a story

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Exposition- Is used to introduce elements of the narrative, such as background information, settings, events, etc.

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Rising Action-How the events in a story build excitement until they reach their most exciting point (called the "climax")

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Climax- the turning point of a story when the main character's problem begins to be solved or resolved.

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Falling Action- Occurs after the turning point of the climax, and signifies that the story's main conflict is coming to a close.

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Resolution-End of the story

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Setting- The time and place in which a story is told

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Protagonist and Antagonist: The protagonist works toward the central story goals, while the antagonist works against the goals

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Conflict- A struggle between two opposing forces.

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Story Elements - Conflict - Literacy Short Clips

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Internal Conflict -when a character struggles with their own opposing desires or beliefs

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

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Man vs. Man - two characters struggling against each other

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Man vs. Society - When the protagonist fights against some community

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Man vs. Nature -Some event or situation in the natural world that is causing a problem.

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Man vs. Technology - Protagonist is facing machines or technology (such as mechanical failure or robots) and must prevail against it

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Theme- A literacy theme is the main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, or other literacy work, the theme of story can be conveyed using, characters, setting, dialogue, plot, or a combination of all these

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Diction - The author's selection of words or vocabulary and the artistic arrangements of these words

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

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Mood- The atmosphere of the narrative. Mood is created by means of setting, attitude, and descriptions.

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Tones- The presence of author feelings on their work. Tone refers to an author's use of words and writing style to convey their attitude towards a topic.

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Connotation-Connotation consists of the ideas, emotions, associations, or images that come to mind beyond a word or text's literal meaning. When we read or see something, we can think of it in literal terms
Denotation- The denotation of a word is its literal definition

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Flashback - Is an scene that takes place before the story begins, flashbacks interrupt the chronological order

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Foreshadowing- A literacy device used to hint yet to come - to make the readers guessing

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Parallelism -a figure of speech in which two or more elements of a sentence (or series of sentences) have the same grammatical structure.

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POV- Point Of View is a describing method of shooting an scene that expresses the attitude of a character in an scene

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First Person - A character telling a story by it's own point of view

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Second Person - The narrator describes the reader's actions, thoughts, and background using "you''

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Third Person Objective -  The narrator reports the events that take place without knowing the motivations or thoughts of any of the characters

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Third Person Limited - A method of storytelling in which the narrator knows only the thoughts and feelings of a single character

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Third Person Omniscient -  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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Simile- Type of metaphor that compares two different things using the words “like” or “as.” The purpose of a simile is to help describe one thing by comparing it to another thing that is perhaps seemingly unrelated.

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Metaphor- Figure of speech that directly compares one thing to another for rhetorical effects
Extended Metaphor-  a version of metaphor that extends over the course of multiple lines, paragraphs, or stanzas of prose or poetry. “That man is a snake''.

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Personification - a literary device that uses the non-literal use of language to convey concepts in a relatable way.
A fire can't feel or express emotion, but a writer may use this description to vividly convey the flames' intensity.

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Hyperbole  - an exaggeration used for emphasis or humor. This literary tool is often used to make a certain element of a story seem more interesting

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Irony - The difference between what something appears to mean versus its literal meaning. Irony is associated with both tragedy and humor.

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Irony Simplified | Verbal Irony, Situational Irony, Dramatic Irony | Literary Device

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Verbal Irony - 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 - The irony of something happening that is very different to what was expected.

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Dramatic Irony - Occurs when the audience or readers know more about a situation than the character does.

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Characterization - The description of a character's physical traits (how a character looks).

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Direct Characterization -  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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Indirect Characterization -  The writer reveals information about a character’s personality through his/her words, actions, and thoughts, along with other characters’ responses to that character

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

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Dynamic Character - Dynamic characters change throughout a story

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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 using language well, particularly in terms of written and spoken discourse

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

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Ethos - an argument based on the ethics or credibility of the person making the argument

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Pathos - 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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Logos -  To appeal to the audiences' sense of reason or logic

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Symbolism- The idea that things can represent other things, when the author uses and objector reference to add a different meaning at the story

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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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Oxymoron - rhetorical term that describes words or phrases that, when placed together, create paradoxes or contradictions.

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

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Euphemism-  Make bad things sound better, an appropriate expression used in the place of a phrase or words that may be found inappropriate or offensive

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Allusion- Reference to someone or something commonly known form literature, history religion or other areas of culture

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Assonance when two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound, but start with different consonant sounds

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Alliteration is when words near one another repeat the same letter or sound at the beginning of the woods occur together in a series

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Cliché a phrase used over and over again, something that is so affective that it gets overused to a point it is not affective anymore

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Idioms is an expression that cannot be understood of its separate but must be learned as a whole expression

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

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Pun- Is a play on words. It creates humor through multiple-meaning or similar sounding words