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| Setting (time and place), beginning characters, and beginning situation |
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| Detail that gets the story moving in the direction it’s going to take (Jack and Beanstalk-when Jack trades the cow for the magic beans) |
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| Plot details leading to the climax |
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| When the main character comes face to face with the central conflict and either resolves it successfully or not |
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| Plot Details from the climax to the resolution |
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| The conclusion of the story where loose ends are wrapped up |
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| The central message of the story |
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| Character or force opposite the protagonist |
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| Hints or clues about something that is going to happen later in the story |
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| Comparison between two things that uses like or as |
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| Direct comparison that doesn’t use like or as |
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| Giving something nonhuman, human characteristics |
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| The time and place of a story |
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| a self-contradicting word or group of words |
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| A character who is presented as a contrast to a second character so as to point to some aspect of the second character |
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| a literary device that is also known as a “play on words.” |
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| is a dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience or to another character. |
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| a long speech by one person addressed to other characters |
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| a long speech in which a character expresses his thoughts or feelings aloud while alone upon the stage |
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| Recurring pattern, image, word, phrase |
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| When the audience or reader knows something the characters don’t know. |
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| When the opposite of what is expected actually happens |
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| Occurs when the literal meaning of what someone says is different from or opposite of what they actually meant |
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| The overall feeling or atmosphere that the reader feels. |
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| Reflects the writer’s attitude toward the subject matter in a literary work. |
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