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a plan made in secret by a group of people to do something illegal or harmful.

"He muttered something under his breath, and started planning his next plot to kill her."

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Exposition: a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory.

"the exposition and defense of his ethics"

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Build towards the point of greatest intrest.

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

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

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

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Tone is a literary device that reflects the writer’s attitude toward the subject matter or audience of a literary work.

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Analyzing tone through word choice | Reading | Khan Academy

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mood refers to the emotional response that the writer wishes to evoke in the reader through a story.

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a scene that takes place before a story begins

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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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Oregon State University - School of Writing, Literature and Film

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

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

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the vantage point from which a story is presented.

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OSU School of Writing, Literature and Film

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"What is Point of View?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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A first-person narrative is a mode of storytelling in which a storyteller recounts events from his or her own point of view using the first person such as "I", "us", "our" and "ourselves". It may be narrated by a first-person protagonist, first-person re-teller, first-person witness, or first-person peripheral.

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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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This is a common form of third-person narration in which the teller of the tale, who often appears to speak with the voice of the author himself, assumes an omniscient (all-knowing) perspective on the story being told

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the period after the dramatic confrontation of the climax.

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The resolution is the end of the story. It occurs after the CLIMAX.

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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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thwarted, endangered, or opposing desire

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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.
man vs. man
man vs. society
man vs. nature
man vs. technology

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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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Direct comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"

Example; McBride fwll 12 stories hitting the pavement

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Metaphor: A direct comparison between two unlike things using like  or as

Extended Metaphor: A version of metaphor that extends over the course of multiple lines

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Personification: Giving a non-human thing human chacteristicts

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A literary device that uses symbols, be they words, people, marks, location, or abstract ideas to represent something beyond the literal meaning

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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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Euphemisms That Native Speakers Use All the Time

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Allusion is a figure of speech, in which an object or circumstance from unrelated context is referred to covertly or indirectly. It is left to the audience to make the direct connection.

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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