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11 Cards in this Set
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Plot
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The plan, scheme, or main story of a literary or dramatic work, as a play, novel, or short shory.
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Character
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Individual in a story, poem, or play.
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Setting
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Time and place of a story or play.
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Theme
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The central idea or insight about human life revealed by a work of literature.
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Mood
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A story's atmosphere of the feeling it envokes.
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Tone
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The attitude a writer takes toward a subject, a character, or the reader.
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Point of view
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Vantage point from which s writer narrates, or tells a story.
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Symbol
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Person, place, or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
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Irony
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ontrast or discrepanct between expectation and reality.
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Ambiguity
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Element of uncertainty in a text, in which something can be interpreted in a number of different ways.
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Figurative language
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A word or a phrase that describes one thing in terms of another that is not meant to be taken on a literal level.
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