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| Setting (time and place) beginning characters, and beginning situation. |
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| Reflects the writer's attitude toward the subject matter in a literary work |
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| The overall feeling or atmosphere that the reader feels |
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| When the audience or reader knows something the characters don't know. |
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| When the opposite of what is expected actually happens. |
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| Occurs when the literal meaning of what someone says is different from or opposite of what they actually meant. |
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| Hints or clues about something that is going to happen later in the story. |
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| Giving something nonhuman, human characteristics |
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| Direct comparison that doesn't use like or as |
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| Comparison between two things that uses like or as |
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| Central message of the story |
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| Recurring pattern, image, word, phrase |
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| Detail that gets the story moving in the direction it's going to take |
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| Plot details leading to the climax |
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| When the main character comes face to face with the central conflict and either resolves it successfully or not |
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| Plot details from the climax to the resolution |
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| The conclusion of the stroy |
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| Character or force opposite the protagonist |
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| a long speech in which a character expresses his thoughts or feelings aloud while alone upon the stage |
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| An aside is a dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience or to another character. By convention the audience is to realize that the character's speech is unheard by the other characters on stage. ... An aside is usually a brief comment, rather than a speech, ... |
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| A pun is a literary device that is also known as a “play on words.” Puns involve words with similar or identical sounds but with different meanings. |
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| a character who is presented as a contrast to a second character so as to point to or show to advantage some aspect of the second character. |
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| An oxymoron is a self-contradicting word or group of words |
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| Where the story takes place |
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| The main point against the main character |
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| Monologue is an long speech by one person addressed to other characters |
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