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3 Suzanne Coulter

4 What is an Anecdote? An anecdote is a brief story about an interesting, amusing, or strange event.

5 By: Stacy Skolnik

6 Character who causes problems for the protagonist

7 Michelle Wainwright

8 A form of nonfiction in which a person tells the story of his or her own life.

9 Lauren Jones

10 A form of non fiction in which a writer tells the life story of another person.

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12 The process by which writers create and develop a character.

13 2 types of conflict: Internal External

14 Conflict is a struggle between opposing forces.

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16 Dialect: words spoken by characters in the novel!

17 Christine Chevis

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20 Internal Conflict: Conflict that takes within the mind of the Character

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22 Prose writing that tells about imaginary characters and events.

23 By: Taylor Goodwine

24 Say What?!? A flashback is a section of a literary work that interrupts the sequence of events to relate in event from an earlier time. “I remembe r when…..”

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26 Foreshadowing is the use in a literary work that interrupts the sequence of events that have yet to occur.

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28 Literary techniques that involve surprising or amusing contradictions. POLICE

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30 A central message, purpose, or concern in a literary work!

31 By John H. Croft

32 A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else. Example: My brother is a pig! He eats too much.

33 By: Lexi Macaluso

34 The character that the passage is mainly about. The one that the story is about his or her life.

35 Virginia Giroir

36 One who takes part in the action, but is not the focus of attention

37 Alan Yarborough

38 Narrator A speaker or character who tells a story

39 Point of View By Phillip Curry

40 The perspective in which a story is told. The three points of view are: 1 st person 3 rd person limited 3 rd person omniscient.

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42 Point of View-1 st Person The first person point of view is from the perspective of a character in the novel. He or she refers to himself as “I” and cannot see inside other character’s minds.

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44 The narrator relates the inner thoughts and feelings of only one character’s perspective “Limited” to one character

45 3 rd Person Taylor and Suzanne

46 3 rd Person Omniscient is when the reader can see what all characters are thinking.

47 Ryan Visram

48 Plot Sequence of events in a literary work climax introduction

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50 THE MAIN CHARACTER IN A LITERARY WORK.

51 By: Jerry Turner

52 A type of story that has real events, people, and setting.

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54 SETTING THE TIME AND PLACE OF THE ACTION

55 Simile By: Ryan Moore

56 A simile uses “like” or “as” to make a direct comparison between two unlike things or ideas. “The rain beat down on the house like a drummer playing the drums”

57 A feeling of anxious uncertainty about the outcome of events in a literary work Suspense is often used in thriller and spy novels, but it is also used to a lesser extent in any fiction.

58 Steven Moen and Alex Brayton

59 A symbol is anything that stands for or represents something else

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61 A central message, purpose, or concern in a literary work!


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