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Title: henderson
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Created: 2012-02-07
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    • alliteration
    • repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds.
    • allusion
    • reference to a statement,a person,place or an event from literature,history,religion,myth,politics,sports,science,or pop culture.
    • ambiguity
    • an element of uncertainty in a text,in which something can be interpreted in a number of different ways.
    • autobiography
    • an account of the writer's own life.
    • biography
    • an account of a person's life written or told by another person.
    • bias
    • weight on one side;a learning of the mind;bent
    • chronological order
    • the order in which events unfold in real time.
    • chronology
    • the arrangement of events or dates in the order of their occurence.
    • connotation
    • all the meanings,associations,or emotions that have come to be attached to some words,in addition to their literal dictionary .
    • contradition
    • two feelings,events,or statements that are opposites.
    • donotation
    • first there are the literal meanings of words.
    • diction
    • a writer's or speakers choice of words.
    • direct
    • that a writer "shows" us a character but allows us to interpret for ourselves the kind of person we are meeting.
    • dramactic irony
    • occurs when the audience or reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know.
    • exposition
    • type of writing that explains,gives information,defines,or clarifies an idea.
    • falling action
    • prevents events that result from the action taken at the turning point.
    • first person narrator
    • when characters tell their own stories.
    • flash--forward
    • a sene in a movie,play,short story,novel,or narrative poem that interrupts the present action of the plot to shift into the future.
    • flat character
    • has only one or two traits.
    • indirect characterization
    • the first five ways of revealing a character.
    • irony
    • contrast between expectation and reality.
    • inference
    • educated guesses.
    • literary criticism
    • the art or practice of judging and commenting on the qualities and character ofliterary works.
    • main idea
    • a central message that the writer wants to communicate to the reader.
    • objective
    • pertaining to an object;relating to whatever is exterior to the mind.
    • omniscient narrator
    • is someone who knows everything about everyone in the story.
    • parody
    • an adaptation of words of an author,etc...
    • persuasion
    • act of persuading;settled opinion or conviction;a creedor belief;a sect or party.
    • prose
    • speech or language not inverse.
    • resolution
    • the final part of the story.
    • rising action
    • consists of a series of complications.
    • round character
    • like a real person has many different character traits.
    • satire
    • type of writing that ridicules something.
    • short story
    • short,concentrated,fictional prose narrative.
    • static character
    • is one who does not change much in the course of a story.