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| A contrast between appearance and reality-usually one in which reality is the opposite from what it seems. | show 🗑
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| show | Rising Action
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| When a character must make a decision about a problem or struggle he is having within himself. | show 🗑
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| show | Figures of Speech
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| show | Theme
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| show | Falling Action
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| show | Suspense
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| show | Puns
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| show | Dynamic
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| show | Character vs. Society
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| A reference to a literary, mythological, or historical person, place, or thing. | show 🗑
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| The emotions or associations a word normally arouses in people using, hearing, or reading the word. POSITIVE, NEGATIVE, NEUTRAL | show 🗑
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| show | Static
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| show | Simile
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| show | Point of View
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| show | Hyperbole
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| show | Denotation
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| The writers attitude or feeling toward a person, a thing, a place, an event or a situation. | show 🗑
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| When a character has a problem with another character. | show 🗑
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| show | Parallelism
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| Writing that gives animals, inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics. | show 🗑
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| the use of any object, person, place or action that both has a meaning in itself and that stands for something larger than itself, such as quality, attitude, belief or value. | show 🗑
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| When a character has a problem with a force of nature such as cold, storms, earthquakes, etc. | show 🗑
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| A struggle between two opposing forces. | show 🗑
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| When important aspects of a story are given important positions and in-depth development; created by repetition, parallelism, extensive detail, and/or mechanical devices such as capitalization, italics, symbols, and/or color. | show 🗑
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| A recurrent element in a literary work; a pattern or strand of imagery or symbolism. | show 🗑
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| show | Inciting incident
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| show | Oxymoron
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| show | Detail
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| show | Character vs. Fate
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| show | Climax
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| show | Protagonist
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| show | Epiphany
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| show | Antagonist
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| show | Metaphor
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| The words or phrases a writer uses to represent persons, objects, actions, feelings, and ideas descriptively by appealing to the five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch). | show 🗑
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| A type of character, action, or situation that occurs over and over in literature; a pattern or example that occurs in literature and life. | show 🗑
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| The problem set up in the inciting incident is unraveled; there is a revelation of meaning. | show 🗑
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| show | Repetition
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| A reason that explains a character's thoughts, feelings, actions, or behavior. | show 🗑
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| The sequence of events or actions in a short story, novel, play or narrative. | show 🗑
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| show | Foreshadowing
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| The methods used by an author to create a character, including: physical appearance, speech, thoughts, actions, and/or feelings, OTHER characters' speech, thoughts, actions, and/or feelings, direct comments by the author about the character. | show 🗑
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| Word choice. An author often chooses a word because it suggests a connotative meaning that comes from its use in various social contents. | show 🗑
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| show | Idiom
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| The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. | show 🗑
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| show | Exposition
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| The background against which action takes place: geographical location, occupations, time and period, general enviroment. | show 🗑
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