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The person or thing that opposes the protagonists; sometimes called the villain.

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Antagonist

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Prose writing that tells about imaginary characters and events.

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Fiction

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Repetition of the beginning consonant sound (ex: rough and ready, Peter Piper)

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Alliteration

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Writing or speech not meant to be taken literally; similes, and metaphors are examples

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Figurative Language

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The problem or complication in a story, often between that person and something else.

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Conflict

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The action that takes place in a story after the climax and that resolves the conflict.

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Falling Action

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A recurring and familiar pattern in literature, example - Disney.

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Archetype

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The assumed or false name of an author

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Pseudonym

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The part of a story or play that explains the background or makes conflict clear.

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Exposition

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A story about a person written by that person

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Autobiography

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Yearning for the way things used to be.

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Nostalgic

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The use of words that imitate sounds, as in buzz, hiss, or murmur.

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Onomatopoeia

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The literal, dictionary definition of a word.

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Denotation

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A unit or group of lines in poetry that are separated by spaces.

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Stanza

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Told from the perspective of one character in the story; designated by the pronoun 'I'.

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First person point of view

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Repetition of phrases that have similar grammatical patterns.

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Parallelism

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When a story's sequence is interrupted and a character goes goes back to an earlier time.

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Flashback

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The main character in a literary work who drives the plot forward.

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Protagonist

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Story is told by someone outside the events but who knows the character's thoughts and feelings

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Omniscient POV

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The writer or speaker's attitude towards the subject of the work.

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Tone

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Time and place of a literary work

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Setting

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Exaggerating or stretching the truth for literary effect, example, "My feet are killing me".

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Hyperbole

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The way an author reveals his characters; can be done directly or indirectly

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Characterization

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The story told from the perspective of someone outside the events of the story.

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Third person POV

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The use of clues that suggest events yet to come.

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Foreshadowing

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Narrative that is about real people, places, objects, or events.

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Non-fiction

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Words that describe sights, sounds, movements, and recreate sensory experience.

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Imagery

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Designated by the pronoun 'you'; this does not exist in storytelling

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Second person

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Comparison of two unlike things without using like or as.

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Metaphor

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Two words used together that contradict each other, as in sweet sorrow or icy hot.

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Oxymoron

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A form of language spoken by people of a particular region or group.

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Dialect

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Speech delivered by a character when he is alone on stage

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Soliloquy

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A message that tells a story.

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Narrative

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Short composition usually analytic, speculative, or persuasive.

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Essay

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An author's account or story of another person's life

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Biography

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The sequence of events in a literary work.

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Plot

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The perspective from which the story is told.

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Point of view

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Repetition of internal vowel sound, as in "how now brown cow".

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Assonance

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A comparison of two unlike things using the word like or as.

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Simile

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Something seen that stands for something unseen, as a rose for love, flag for a country.

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Symbol

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Poems that tell a story

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Narrative Poetry

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An author's unique way of writing that involves word choice and sentence patterns.

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Style

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Central truth or idea in a story.

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Theme

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Giving human characteristics to a non-human thing or substance.

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Personification

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Conversation carried on by the characters in a work of literature.

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Dialogue

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Stories that center upon or incorporate some significant historical events.

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Historical Fiction

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High Point in a story, point of most intense interest, and point of no return.

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Climax

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All the emotions or feelings a word arouses, such as negative feelings about 'pig'.

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Connotation

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Something is different than it is or thought to be, example, she likes you but cussed you out.

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Irony

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Reference to something outside of the work, usually mythical, Biblical, or historical

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Allusion

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