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| The person or force that tries to thwart the protagonist, or main character. |
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| A character or image that has been in literature from the beginning and regularly occurs in different literatures of different people. |
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| The dominant mood of a work of fiction—especially in regard to physical setting or landscape. |
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| Automatic Writing (also called free association, or trance writing |
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| Writing in which the words seem to come straight to paper from the subconscious mind. |
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| words to illustrate the physical setting where a scene occurs. |
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| The first sentence or paragraph or page of a story: whatever goes on before the real conflict is made clear. A story’s beginning had better be compelling. If it is not, a reader will not get past it. |
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