Literary Terms
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| Climax | the most exciting point in the story
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| Resolution | this occurs after the climax in a story or novel and is when all the conflicts have been resolved
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| Setting | the time and place of the action in a literary work
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| Antagonist | the character or force in conflict with the main character
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| Denouement | any event that occurs at or after the ending in a story
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| Third Person Omniscient | the point of view when a voice outside the literary work tells the story, and the reader can tell what all characters think or feel
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| foreshadowing | the use of clues that suggest what will occur later in the story
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| First Person | the point of view when a character tells the story and the reader knows only what that character thinks or feels
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| Tone | A writer's attitude towards the subject
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| Simile | a comparison of two things using "like" or "as"
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| Mood | a feeling created in the reader by a literary piece of work
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| Metaphor | a comparison of two things without using "like" or "as"
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| Theme | the central message of a literary work
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| Personification | A type of figurative language used in which human characteristics are given to non-human things
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| Moral | a lesson taught by a literary work.
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| Narrator | is the person who tells the story
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| Hyperbole | a type of figurative language used to show an exaggeration
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| Antonym | A word that has the exact opposite meaning of another word
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| Synonym | A word that has the same or similar meaning
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| Idiom | A type of figurative language phrase where the meanings cannot be inferred by the literal meaning of the words
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| Allusion | a reference to a well-known person, place,event, literary work, or work of art
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| Symbol | anything that stands for or represents something else
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| Alliteration | the repetition of the initial consonant sound
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| Onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate sounds
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| Protagonist | the main character in a literary work who tries to solve the problem
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| Plot | the sequence of events, or what happens in a story or novel
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