Literary Elements
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| nonfiction | writing that is based on fact
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| fiction | writing that includes made up stories, events, and people.
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| biography | book about someone that is written by someone else.
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| autobiography | book about someone's own life written by them.
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| monologue | speech given by one person on stage when others are on stage to the audience
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| soliloquy | speech given on stage by one person and are on stage alone
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| plot | sequence of events in a story
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| exposition | setting, characters, and conflict introduced
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| climax | turning point; the highest peak of action in the story
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| resolution/denouement | final section of plot/ties up the loose ends of story.
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| flashback | is a scene or event that happened before the beginning of a story (sometimes interrupts a scene).
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| foreshadowing | giving clues about something that will occur later in the story.
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| Theme | The message the author wants you to take away from a story. The main, overall idea or lesson learned from the text.
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| Inference; infer | making a guess based on information from text combined with your own prior knowledge - to determine something is true based on the evidence seen.
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| First person point of view | A character tells the story from his or her own point of view. I, me, we
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| Third person omniscient | A narrator outside of the action knows what all characters are thinking or feeling. This narrator is "all knowing." He, she, they
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| Third person Limited | A narrator outside of the action tells the story of one character only; the narrator is limited to what this one character knows and sees.
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