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Characterization

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How individual characters are represented by the narrator or author of a text, including descriptions of their physical appearances, personalities, actions, interactions, and dialogue.

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Dialogue

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Spoken exchanges between characters in a dramatic or literary work, usually between two or more speakers.

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Genre

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A kind of literature, such as comedy, mystery, tragedy, satire, elegy, romance, and epic. Texts often draw elements from multiple genres to create dynamic narratives.

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Imagery

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An author’s use of vivid descriptions that evoke sense-impressions by literal or figurative reference to perceptible or ‘concrete’ objects, scenes, actions, or states of being.

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Plot

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The sequence of events that occur through a work to produce a coherent narrative or story.

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First-person Point of View

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A story told from the perspective of one or several characters, each of whom typically uses the word “I,” allowing readers to experience events through the narrator’s eyes.

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Third-person Point of View

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A narrative told from the perspective of an outside figure who does not participate directly in the events of a story, using “he,” “she,” and “it” to describe events and characters.

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Style

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Comprising an author’s diction, syntax, tone, characters, and other narrative techniques, it describes the way an author uses language to convey ideas and purpose in writing.

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Symbol(ism)

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An object or element incorporated into a narrative representing another concept or concern.

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Theme

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A salient abstract idea that emerges from a literary work’s treatment of its subject-matter, or a topic recurring in a number of literary works.