8570493918 | paratactic sentence | simply juxtaposes clauses or sentences | 0 | |
8570496749 | parody | a work that makes fun of another work by imatating some aspect of the writers style | 1 | |
8570514116 | periodic | sentence that places the main idea at the end of the sentence | 2 | |
8570522525 | personification | figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings | 3 | |
8570535114 | exposition | introduces characters situation and setting | 4 | |
8570540384 | rising action | complications in conflict and situations | 5 | |
8570546394 | climax | the point in a plot that creates the greatest intensity | 6 | |
8570553904 | Resolution | conclusion of a story when all conflicts have been settled | 7 | |
8570563719 | first person point of view | one character tells the story | 8 | |
8570572254 | Third Person Point of View | unknown narrator tells the story but focuses on a single charecter | 9 | |
8570586298 | omniscient point of view | all knowing narrator tells story | 10 | |
8570589692 | objective point of view | impersonal narrator tells story with no comment on events | 11 | |
8570600303 | polysyndeton | sentence which uses a conjunction with no commas to separate a series. | 12 | |
8570614019 | protagonist | central character in a story who drives the action | 13 | |
8570622767 | pun | play on words based on multiple meanings of a single word | 14 |
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