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What is a flashback?

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Interruption in the narrative to show quick events from the past that help explain the present.

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Back story: necessary info from the past to understand current events.

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Necessary info from the past to understand current events.

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Linear narrative: Stories that happen from one point in time to the next.

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Stories that happen from one point in time to the next.

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Setting: Where and when the narrative occurs.

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Where and when the narrative takes place.

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Flash-forward:

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Interruption in the narrative showing future events to create tension or excitement.

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What is dialogue?

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Conversations between two or more characters.

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Conflict: challenge main characters must solve to achieve goals.

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Challenge main characters need to solve to achieve their goals.

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Protagonist: leading character in a play, film, or novel.

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Leading character in a play, film, or novel.

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What is personification?

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A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or natural force is portrayed as a human.

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Foreshadowing:

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Advance hint of what is to come later in the story.