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The story starts to wind down
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Dictionary definition
denotation
connotation
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The story starts to wind down
exposition
climax
falling action
rising action
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A story starts to pick up.
rising action
exposition
climax
falling action
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It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.
juxtaposition
Verbal irony
simile
oxymoron
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The most exciting part of a story.
exposition
climax
falling action
rising action
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A fight in the streets.
man vs. man
Man vs. nature
Man vs. self
man vs. God
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A hint or clue that something is coming in a story.
foreshadowing
symbol
mood
tone
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The American flag represents freedom
symbol
repetition
foil
alliteration
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The good guy in a story.
bytagonist
antagonist
protagonist
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He is as big as a house.
pun
metaphor
alliteration
simile
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I get a kick out of soccer!
oxymoron
situational irony
alliteration
pun
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When the audience knows what the character does not.
verbal irony
dramatic irony
situational irony
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The moral / lesson learned in a story
theme
Juxtaposition
motif
antagonist
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I am so hungry I could eat a horse
metaphor
pun
simile
hyperbole
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A symbol / idea repeated throughout a story.
connotation
motif
symbiosis
symbol infinity
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peter piper picked a pepper
alliteration
similemetaphor
oxymoron
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outside narrator
2nd person
1st person
3rd person
all person
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The fireman's house burns down
dramatic irony
verbal irony
situational irony
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time and place of a story
plot
setting
character conflict
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He reminds me of Moses who parted the sea.
Literary allusion
simile
Shakespearean allusion
Biblical allusion
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A character in the story narrates.
3rd person
2nd person
1st person
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The beginning of a story.
falling action
climax
exposition
rising action
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Jumbo shrimp
alliteration
pun
oxymoron
dramatic irony
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ending of a story
resolution
climax
rising action
exposition
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Survival in the woods
man vs. man
man vs. God
man vs. society
man vs. nature
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I must have lost one million pounds!
hyperbole
dramatic irony
situational irony
verbal irony
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Martin Luther King fighting for civil rights
man vs. man
man vs. nature
man vs. self
man vs. society
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I know the Titanic is going to sink but the characters do not
dramatic irony
ironing board irony
situational irony
verbal irony
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Pa said there ain't no fish bitin' in this here lake.
formal diction
informal diction
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He was not having the best day after he caught the chicken pox, his bike was run over, and his girlfriend dumped him.
repetition
understatement
oxymoron
