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8570493918paratactic sentencesimply juxtaposes clauses or sentences0
8570496749parodya work that makes fun of another work by imatating some aspect of the writers style1
8570514116periodicsentence that places the main idea at the end of the sentence2
8570522525personificationfigure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings3
8570535114expositionintroduces characters situation and setting4
8570540384rising actioncomplications in conflict and situations5
8570546394climaxthe point in a plot that creates the greatest intensity6
8570553904Resolutionconclusion of a story when all conflicts have been settled7
8570563719first person point of viewone character tells the story8
8570572254Third Person Point of Viewunknown narrator tells the story but focuses on a single charecter9
8570586298omniscient point of viewall knowing narrator tells story10
8570589692objective point of viewimpersonal narrator tells story with no comment on events11
8570600303polysyndetonsentence which uses a conjunction with no commas to separate a series.12
8570614019protagonistcentral character in a story who drives the action13
8570622767punplay on words based on multiple meanings of a single word14

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