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Elements of a story
Figurative language
Literary terms
Roots
More Literary Terms
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Protagonist
Main character of a story
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Metaphor
A comparison between two objects w/o using like or as
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Irony
A perceptual gap of information
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Circa
Around
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3rd person omniscient
When who is not a character in the story tells it and has knowledg of every character's thoughts
200
Resolution
How the story ends
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Personification
Giving human characteristics to non humans
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Denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
200
Trans
Across
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Tone
The authors feelings in the text
300
Climax
The turning point/ most exciting part of the story
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Hyperbole
A literary exaggeration
300
Connotation
The feeling of a word
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Tract
Pull
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Mood
How a text makes a reader feel
400
Point of view
The perspective from which the story is told. Ex...
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Symbolism
When s person, object or place represents an intangible idea.
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Forrshadowing
An event or piece of dialog that hints of an event later in the story is
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Bio
Life
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Rhetoric strategies
Pathos logos and ethos
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Exposition
The background and setting of a story
500
Assonance
Repetitions of vowel sounds
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Flashback
When a text suddenly switches to the past to explore a character's memory
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Omni
All
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Theme
The implicit message the author conveys through their text