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Character struggles with an outside force (another character, society, or nature).

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external conflict

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A brief story in prose or poetry with a moral.

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fable

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False idea based on faulty reasoning (e.g., Earth is flat)

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fallacy

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A prose account (story) that is made up rather than true.

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fiction

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Language not meant to be taken literally, used for special effects (e.g., simile, metaphor, personification).

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figurative language

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A word or phrase describing one thing in terms of another, not literally true (e.g., 'I ate a ton of pizza').

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figure of speech

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Narrative told by a character using "I," providing limited knowledge based on their observations.

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first person point of view

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Interruption in a plot to show earlier events.

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flashback

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A character known little by the reader, existing to make the story work (e.g., Steve Randle in The Outsiders).

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flat character

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Clear expression of ideas; freedom from word-identification issues in reading.

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fluency