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| those works generally considered by scholars, critics, and teachers to be the most important to read and study, which collectively constitute the "masterpieces" of literature |
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| adventure, western, detective, science fiction, and romance novels that entertain millions of readers |
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| to describe characters, symbols, or rhyme scheme that supports a theme |
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| author's selection and arrangement of incidents in a story to shape the action and give the story a particular focus |
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| used to describe the common strategy of beginning a story |
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