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Microscope Lableing

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Definition/Example
Allegory   When a story has another meaning that may tell something different that isn't obvious.  
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Allusion   When something references something such as literature, a movie, an event, etc.  
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Antagonist   Death Vader  
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Archetype   Rafiki from the lion king as a sage  
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Charactonym   Scar from the lion king  
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Chronological order   When something is told in the sequence that it happened in time  
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Climax   The point of highest action/intensity in which the main problem will go one direction or another  
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Comic Relief   Tony Stark's comments in the avengers  
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Conclusion   The result reached by the end of the story.  
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Conflict   A problem/fight/disagreement between two things in a story  
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Dramatic irony   When the reader/audience knows something the character doesnt  
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Exposition   When the characters, setting, etc. Are introduced  
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External conflict   Character vs another physical thing  
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Falling action   After the climax when intensity lessens and questions are answered  
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Foreshadowing   When something in a story hints at what will happen in a later event  
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Idiom   It's raining cats and dogs  
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Imagery   When words explain one of the five senses  
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Inciting incident/ initial incident   The first action in the story that launches the conflict  
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Internal conflict   When a character faces an idea/something inside  
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Irony   When something is the opposite of what is expected, what is normal, etc.  
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Metaphor   Comparison between to seperate things without using likegkor as  
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Mood   Feeling reader gets while reading a story  
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Motif   Something that repeats in a story. Such as a writing style, certain object, etc.  
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Personification   When a nonliving thing is given living qualities in writing  
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Plot   The storys action that takes place  
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Plot diagram   Sequence of a story as shown by a picture in a mountain shape with rising action leading to the peak, the climax, and falling back to the bottom with falling action  
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Protagonist   Luke skywalker, captain America, etc.  
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Pun   What did the owner say to the dog that peed on the floor? Urine big trouble  
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Resolution   The answer to the main conflict  
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Rising action   Time in story Between exposition and climax when action intensifies to reach the climax  
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Setting   Location and time period of the story  
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Simile   He was as jolly as santa  
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Situational irony   When the way an event does happen is opposite of what you would think  
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Suspense   A moment of tension that makes you wonder what the result will be  
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Symbol   When something in a story stands for something else. Usually stands for an idea.  
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Theme   The main message that is conveyed by the author in a story  
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Tone   The feeling in the story created by the author  
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Verbal irony   When something is said that is opposite of expected/what you would think. (sarcasm)  
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