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Tone
the attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
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Climax
the moment of great emotional intensity or suspence in a plot
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Static Character
a character who does not change much in the course of the story (TV static/show)
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Allusion
a reference to a statement, a person, a plae or event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science or pop culture
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Foil
a character used as a contrast to another character (Donkey in Shrek)
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Flashback
a scene in a movie, play, short story, novel, or narrative poem that interrupts the present action of the plot to flash backward and tell what happened at an earlier time
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Onomatopoeia
the use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (snap, crackle, pop)
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Symbol
a person, place, thing or event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself
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Setting
a time or place of a story or play
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Theme
the central idea of a work of literature
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Personification
a type of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human
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Protagonist
the main character in a work of fiction or drama
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Foreshadowing
the use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot
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Direct Charactereization
is when we do not have to decide for ourselves what a character is like because the author tells us directly
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Internal conflict
takes place entirely within a character's mind
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Flat Character
has only one or two traits that can be described in a few words (Bruce the shark in Finding Nemo)
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Verbal Irony
when the writer or speaker says one thing but really means something completely different
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Metaphor
a figure of speech that makes the comparison between two unlike things, in which one thing becomees another thing without the use of like, as, than, or resemples
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Antagonist
the force that blocks the main character in the story
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Omniscient Point of View
when the person telling the story knows everything there is to know about the characters and their problems
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Simile
a figure of speech that makes a comparison betweet two unlike things using words such as like, as, resembles or than
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Suspense
uncertaintly or anxiety the reader feels about what is going to happen next in a story
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First Person Point of View
when one of the characters is actually the narrator telling the story, using the pronoin I
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Dynamic Character
a character that changes as a result of the story's events
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Basic Situation
the opening of the story, where characters and their conflict is usually introduced
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Denouement
the end of the story whether resolution is reached
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3rd Person Limited Point of View
the narrator that plays no role in the story but zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of just one character
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Situation Irony
occurs when there is a conflict between what would seem appropriate and what really happens or when there is a contradiction between what we expect to happenand what really does take place
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Falling Action
is the time between the climax and the resolution when things begin to calm in the story
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Indirect Characterization
when the reader has to use their own judgement to decide what a character is like, based on the evidence the writer has given
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Round Character
like a real person with many different character traits, which sometimes contradict one another
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Complications
occurs in the part of the plot when the character begins to attempt to resolve the conflict but encounters more problems
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External Conflict
occurs when the audience or reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know
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