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| time and place of the action |
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| a feeling of anxious uncertainty about the outcome of events |
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| a struggle between two opposing forces |
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| struggle takes place within the protagonist's mind |
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| A character struggles against some outside person or force. |
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| a character or force in conflict with the main character |
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| a characterthat changes in the course of the story |
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| A character that stays the same. |
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| When the author comes right out and tells the reader information regarding a character |
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| Indirect Characterization |
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| When the author leaves room for the reader to interpret a character based on what the character says or does |
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| Sequence of events in a literary work |
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| The manner of order in which events happen |
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| all the events that occur before the climax of the story(conflict) |
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| High point of interest or suspense |
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| All events that occur after the climax(resolution) |
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| Use of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur |
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| Technique an author uses to remind the reader of something that happened previously |
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| Surprising, interesting, or amusing contradictions |
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| words are used to suggest the opposite of their usual meaning |
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| an event occurs that directly contradicts the expectations of the characters or the reader |
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| A reference to a well-known person, group, place, idea, work of art or literature-that is widely held and that allows for no individuality or variation |
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| use of words that imitate sounds(hiss, crash, buzz, ring) |
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| Perspective from which the story is told |
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| narrator is a character in the story, reffered to as "I". We see the story through his/her eyes. |
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| (all-knowing) narrator is not a character in the story but knows everything about the story's events and reveals the thoughts of all the characters |
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| narrator is not a character, but he or she presents the story from the perspective of only one of the characters, referring to that character as "he or she" |
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| the reader knows more than the character does |
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| commonly found in poems-repetition of the beginning letter or sound |
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| the resolution, how everything gets tied together, what happens at the end |
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| back round information so we will know what we are reading |
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| words create images in mind |
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| comparison w/o like or as |
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| the point the author tries to make |
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| how is this being written, attitude toward writin |
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