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  1. Rising action - Suspense increases, learn more about characters and conflict.

  2. Climax - Turning point, main event of story.

  3. Falling action- suspense decreases, learn outcomes/consequences of turning point.

  4. Denouement - the end, loose ends are tied up.

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  1. Rising action - Suspense increases, learn more about characters and conflict.

  2. Climax - Turning point, main event of story.

  3. Falling action- suspense decreases, learn outcomes/consequences of turning point.

  4. Denouement - the end, loose ends are tied up.

Plot

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traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon.

Myth

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type, example of a person or thing

Archetype

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long poem, narrating the adventures of heroic figures or the history of a nation.

Epic

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main character of an epic poem that tells the story of a grand quest. 

Epic Hero

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“in the middle of things” – much of the important action in the story occurred before the point at which the story begins

In Medias Res

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an account of an event that happened before a story began

Flashback

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excessive pride or vaulting ambition. Cocky, arrogant - a type of tragic flaw

Hubris

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An event regarded as a portent of good or evil.

Omen

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Animal, object, etc. given human qualities or characteristics 

Personification

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When a character gets what he deserves.

Poetic Justice

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Hinting at things to come

Foreshadowing

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Reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

Allusion

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symbol is an object, person, place, etc. that means more than what it is 

Symbolism

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The struggle between opposing forces or characters in a story.

Conflict

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A character struggles with his or her own opposing desires, beliefs, or needs

Internal Conflict

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A character struggles against an outside force (man vs. man, nature, society)

External Conflict

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a short musical narrative song or poem that usually recounts a single exciting or dramatic episode

Ballad

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poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter lines

Blank Verse

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The ordinary form of spoken or written language without metrical structure

This is how WE talk/write

Prose

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Sentence structure

Syntax

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set of facts or circumstances surrounding an event or a situation in a piece of literature

Context

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a saying that takes on special meaning, different from the actual words that make it up

Idiom

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A difference between appearances and reality

Irony

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When the audience knows something the characters do not know. 

Dramatic Irony

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irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected.

Situational Irony

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Words used to suggest the opposite of what is meant

Verbal Irony

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