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| the general mood or feeling established in a work of literature |
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| the methods used to present the personality of a character in a work of literature |
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| persons, animals, or natural forces represented in a work of literature |
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| moment of highest emotional intensity in a plot, when the outcome of the conflict is finally made clear to us |
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| a struggle against 2 opposing forces in a piece of literature |
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| the writer tells us explicitly what kind of person the character is |
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| a reader or an audience preceives something that a character in the story or play does not know |
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| undergoes a change in personality or attitude |
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| kind of writing that explains a subject or provides information |
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| all action in a literary work that follows the turning point |
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| any work of literature that includes material that is invented or imagined, that is not a record of things as they actually happened (not true) |
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| used to describe one thing in terms of something else, language that is not intended to be taken literally |
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| the use of clues that hint at important plot developments that are to follow in a story or drama |
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| indirect characterization |
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| the writer makes us figure out the character for ourselves |
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| a contrast or an incongruity between what is stated and what is meant, or between what is expected to happen and what actually happens |
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| the writer shows a discrepancy between the expected result of some action or situation and the actual result |
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| a figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given characteristics or feelings |
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| sequence of related events that make up a story or a drama |
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| the vantage point from which a narrative is told |
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| series of events in a drama that lead up to a turning point, where the central chracaters fate is sealed |
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| a fictional narrative written in prose, which is shorter than a novel |
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| stays the same through out the work |
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| with one recognizable personality trait |
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| a sense of uncertainity or anxiety about the outcome of events in a story or drama |
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| the main idea expressed in a literary work; the central insight that the work gives us about human life |
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| tells the story from the vantage point of one character |
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| a writer or speaker means something entirely different from what he or she says |
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