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Is any tool used in literature to help the reader understand the story and its characters.

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Literary device

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Two types of literary devices used by authors

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Literary elements and literary techniques

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Literary Elements

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setting, characters, point of view, plot, conflict, theme

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is where and to some degree, how your story takes place. It’s also your character’s relationship with the world around them. It helps develop the overall theme of the story

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Setting

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Is a person, animal, being, creature, or thing in a story. Writers use them to perform the actions and speak dialogue, moving the story along a plot line

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Character

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Types of Major characters

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Protagonist, antagonist

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Types of minor characters

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Foil, static, dynamic, flat

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The main character, the good guy around which the whole story revolves. The decisions made by this character will be affected by a conflict from within

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Protagonist

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This character or group of characters, causes the conflict for the protagonist

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Antagonist

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Is a character that has **opposite* character traits from another, meant to help highlight or bring out another’s positive or negative side

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Foil

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Characters who do not change throughout the story. Their use may simply be to create or relieve tension, or they were not meant to change

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Static

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Characters that change throughout the story. They may learn a lesson, become bad, or change in complex ways

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Dynamic

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Has one or two main traits, usually only all positive or negative. They are the opposite of a round character

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Flat

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These characters have many different traits, good and bad, making them more interesting

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Round

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The narrative perspective from which a story is told. It’s the *angle** from which readers experience the plot

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Point of View

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Types of POV

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First person, second person, third person limited, third person omniscient

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From a character’s own perspective. The narrator interprets events in their own voice, giving the reader direct access to their thoughts, feelings, and opinions

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First Person

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Authors directly address the reader by using the pronoun you – usually to transform the reader into a character, and draw them closer to the story

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Second person

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POV in which the narrator tells the story from one character’s perspective at a time, using the pronouns he, she, and they to describe their thoughts and actions.

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Third person limited

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Is a narrative technique that provides a **panoramic and all-knowing perspective* in a story. By allowing readers to access the thoughts, emotions, and experiences of multiple characters in a story, it’s considered one of the most flexible but challenging POVs for authors to use

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Third person omniscient

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The sequence of events that happen in a story

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Plot

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Structure of Plot

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Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement

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Is the clash of opposing forces with a character’s own pursuit of a goal.

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Conflict

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Types of internal conflict

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Man vs. Himself

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External conflict

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Man vs. Fate Man vs. Man Man vs. Nature Man vs. Technology

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character's needs or wants are at odds with another's

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man vs. man

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can include dealings with God or the gods and their prophecies

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man vs. fate

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This is a common trope in Greek tragedies

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man vs. fate

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can be defined as the underlying meaning of a story. It is the message the writer is trying to convey through the story, often the theme of a story is a broad message about life

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Theme

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Are used to produce a specific effect on the reader. Authors often use a variety of techniques throughout a piece of literature

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Literary techniques

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The use of **clues or hints** to suggest events that will occur later in the plot

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Foreshadowing

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Contrast between expectation and reality

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Irony

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Occurs when the audience or reader knows something a character does not know

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Dramatic irony

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Refers to when a word or object stands in for something of bigger significance.

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Symbolism

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Is the conversation between two or more characters

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Dialogue

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Is an interruption in the present action of a plot to show events that happened at an earlier time. The story returns or goes back in time to a past event

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Flashback

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Refers to a work in which almost all of the characters are intended as symbols

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Allegory

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The use of words in a way that deviates from the conventional order and meaning in order to convey a complicated meaning

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Figurative language

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Whenever you describe something by comparing it with something else

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Figurative Language

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Literary Techniques

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Foreshadowing, Irony, Symbolism, Allegory, Flashback, Dialogue, Figurative Language

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Literary Devices

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Alliteration, Onomatopoeia, Personification, Imagery, Simile, Metaphor, Oxymoron, Paradox, Synecdoche, Euphemism, Pun, Sarcasm, Irony

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Repetition

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Alliteration

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Use of words that imitate or suggest their meaning. It makes a sound

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Onomatopoeia

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Is when human qualities are given to an animal, an object, or an idea

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Personification

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Language that appeals to the senses. Are used to appeal to one or all of the five senses - sight, touch, taste, smell, sound

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Imagery

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Direct comparisons between two unlike things using the words **like and as**

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Simile

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Are implied comparisons between two unlike things **without** using the words like or as

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Metaphor

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Paradoxical phrase or pair of words that contradicts itself

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Oxymoron

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A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true

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Paradox

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Literary device in which a part of something is substituted for the whole

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Synecdoche

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A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh

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Euphemism

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plays with the words to have multiple meanings

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Pun

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Uses irony to mock someone or something

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Sarcasm

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Implies a distance between what is said and what is meant

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Irony

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Are powerful tools that must not be overlooked in storytelling

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Literary devices