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10/12/2011

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Allegory
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A tale in verse of prose on which the characters represent abstract or moral qualities.
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Allusion
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A refrence- whether explicit or implicit, to history, the bible, myth, literature, that suggests the meaning of details to the story
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Antagonist
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A person opposing the protagonist in a dramatic or narrative work
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Antihero
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a leading character who is not like a hero, perfrct or even outstanding but is rather ordinary and representative of the more or less average person
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Archetype
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A plot or character element that recurs in cultural or cross cultural myths such as the quest
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Character
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A fictional person who acts, appears, or is referred to in a work
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Characterization
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the fictional/artisic creation presentation of a fictional personage
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Climax
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the turning point

the point of greatest intensity or interest

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Conflict
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a clash of purposes or viewpoints in a story, novel, usually the action develops from a basic conflict
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Criticism
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the evaluation work writtin by professional
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Denouement 
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aka conclusion or catatrophe.. the end of a story
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Diction
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an authors choice of words
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Dramatic Irony
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A plot device in which a character holds a position or has an expectation is reversed or fulfilled in a way that the character did not expect but the reader did expect
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Exposition
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That part of the structure that sets the scene, introduces the characteres, and establishes the situation at the begining of the story
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Falling Action
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the action of a story following the climax but before the conclusion
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Figurative Language
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Language that departs from the stritly literal to achieve special effects.
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Figure of Speech
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a device that permits the writer to say one thing and mean another.. such as a metaphor, simile
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Flashback
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a device where a scene from the past is inserted into the present
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Foreshadowing
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early clues about what will happen later in the story
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Imagery
Definition
the use of figurative language to evoke a feeling, or to describe a object
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Irony
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A situation that depends on a discrepency between what is apparent and what is real

 

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Verbal Irony
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a writer says one thing and means another
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Dramatic Irony
Definition
a reader preceives a characters mistakes
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Irony of situation
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in which there is a discrepency between purpose and result
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Limited Point of view
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a perspective pinned to a single character
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metaphor
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a figure of speech in which 2 unlike words are compared but in which no word of comparison is used. 

like or as

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Narrator
Definition
a person who tells the story
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Omniscient point of view
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a perspective that can be seen from one characters  view.
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Plot
Definition
the arrangments if the action, the sequence of events in a story
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Protagonist
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the main character or hero of a dramatic work
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Rising Action
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action of a play which builds toward the climax or turning point
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Setting
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the time and place of a story
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symbol
Definition
a word of phrase that is used to stand or an idea
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