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| The use of words to express the opposite of their literal meaning |
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| A story handed down from earlier times; its truth is popularly accepted but cannot be verified |
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| A humorous five-lined poem with a specific form:aabba. Lines 1,2,and 5 are longer than lines 3 and 4 |
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| A figure of speech that compares two unlike things without the use of like or as |
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| The feeling that the author creates for the reader. |
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| The reasons for the behavior of a character. |
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| The type of writing that tells a story. |
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| The character who tells the story. |
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| A personal point of view or belief. |
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| Writing that ridicules or imitates something more serious. |
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| A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or an abstract idea is given human characteristics |
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| A literary work that is written in dialogue form and that is usually performed before an audience. |
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| The arrangement or sequence of events in a story. |
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| The perspective from which a story is told. |
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| A play on words that are similar in sound but different in meaning |
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| True-to-life fiction; the people, places, and happenings are similar to those in real life. |
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| The part of the plot from the climax to the ending where the main dramatic conflict is worked out |
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| A literary work that pokes fun at individual or societal weaknesses |
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| The placement of story elements in the order of their occurrence. |
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| The time and place in which the story occurs. |
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| A figure of speech that uses like or as to compare two unlike things |
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| A character whose personality traits represent a group rather than an individual. |
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| Quality that causes readers to wonder what will happen next. |
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| The use of a thing, character, object, or idea, to represent something else. |
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| Words that are very similar in meaning. |
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| An exaggerated story detailing un believable events. |
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| The main idea of a literary work; the message the author wants to communicate, sometimes expressed as a generalization about life |
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| The quality or feeling conveyed by the work; the author's style or manner of expression. |
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