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Symbol and Figurative Language Vocabulary

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Definition
Action   events recounted in a fictional work  
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Plot   The way the author sequences and paces the events so as to shape our response and interpretation  
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Foreshadowing   author gives subtle hints or clues as to what will happen later in the story.  
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Subplot   a plot that receives significantly less time and attention than the main plot  
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Discriminated Occation   author slows down story's action to focus in on a particular moment or scene  
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Conflict   central struggle in a story  
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Exposition   first part of the plot that introduces characters and situations  
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Climax   the moment when the outcome of a plot and the fates of the characters are decided  
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Epiphany   sudden revelation of truth inspired by seemingly trivial events.  
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Tragedy   plot lines that follow the undoing of a character and usually end in death  
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Comedy   plot lines that follow the character to happiness and usually end in happy events such as marriage.  
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Narrator   voice who guides the reader along in a story as if the words were being spoken out loud.  
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Narrator Focus   the visual angle that the narrator takes to tell the story  
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Point of view   voice and focus of the narrator who shows the reader what things to focus on and which characters are favorable and unfavorable  
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Third Person Narrator   external narrator who is not part of the story  
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First Person Narrator   narrator who uses "I" as they tell a story  
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Unreliable Narrator   first person narrator who reveals flaws about the narrator or gives false information about other characters in the story  
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