Vocab

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Science Fiction

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Fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes.

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Internal Conflict

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psychological struggle within a literary character's mind

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External Conflict

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struggle between a character and an outside force (nature or another character)

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Foreshadowing

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A warning or indication of a future event.

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Suspense

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the intense feeling an audience experiences while awaiting an outcome.

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Tone

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Attitude of a writer toward a subject or audience.

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Mood of a story

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Emotions audience feels from a passage.

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Conflict type in Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart": "The old man's hour had come! With a loud yell, I threw open the lantern and leaped into the room. He shrieked once-once only."

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External Conflict

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Conflict example: "What could I do? I foamed-I raved-I swore... It grew louder!" (Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart)

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Internal Conflict

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Feeling of excitement while watching a movie.

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suspense