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| insertion of background information within a story or narrative. |
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| an event that occurs, in relation to your protagonist, near to the beginning of your story, which sets that story moving in a different direction |
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| made up of a series of events that lay down breadcrumbs, ask questions, and set roadblocks and conflicts that must be overcome. |
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| the point of highest dramatic tension or a major turning point in the action |
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| deflates the plot's tension and gives the character time to unwind after the emotional scene. |
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| Giving human like qualities to non living things |
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| Where the story takes place |
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| a figure of speech that combines contradictory words with opposing meanings |
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| a character whose purpose is to accentuate or draw attention to the qualities of another character |
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| a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word |
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| turn to the audience to make an observation or quippy remark that the other characters can't hear |
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| an important idea that is woven throughout a story |
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| a character in a story who is presented as the chief foe of the protagonist. |
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| The main character of a story |
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| the main problem in a story |
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| When the story hints at future events |
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| Comparing two things using like or as |
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| Comparing two things not using like or as |
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| a long speech by one actor in a play or movie |
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| an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud by themselves |
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| A repeated pattern in a story |
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| When the audience knows something that the characters dont |
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| a statement in which the speaker's words are incongruous with the speaker's intent. |
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| the irony of something happening that is very different to what was expected. |
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| What the writer wants you to feel when reading the story |
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| the attitude that a character or narrator or author takes towards a given subject. |
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