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11 Cards in this Set
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Plot
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A series of related events that make a story or drama.
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character
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A person in a story, poem or play.
A set of qualities that make someone special. |
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Setting
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The time and place of a story or play.
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Theme
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A central idea or insight about life and human nature that gives a story meaning.
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Mood
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A story`s atmosphere or feeling it evokes.
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Tone
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Attitude a writer takes toward a subject, a character, or audience.
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Point of view
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Vantage point from which a writer tells a story. In broad terms there are three possible points of view: omniscient, first person, and third person limited.
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Symbol
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Person, place, thing, or event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself as well.
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Irony
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Contrast between expectation and reality-between what is said and what is really meant, between what is expected to happen and what really dies happen, or between what appears to be true and what is really true.
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Ambiguity
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An element of uncertainty in a text, in which something can be interpreted in a number of diffrent ways.
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Figurative Language
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Word or phrases that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood on a literal (real) level.
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