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8634613612plota sequence of incidents or events of which a story or play is composed0
8634613949Plot Manipulationa situation in which an author gives the plot a twist by proceeding action or by the characters involved1
8634614881Poeticizingwriting that uses immoderately heightened language to sway the reader's feelings2
8634614882point of viewthe angle of vision from which the story is told3
8634616615omniscentthird person, knowing all and free to tell us anything, including what the characters are thinking or feeling and why they act as they do4
8634617260third person limitedthird person, but is limited to a complete knowledge of one character in the story and tells us only what the one character thinks, feels, sees, hears.5
8634617929first personthe story is told by one of its characters using the first person6
8634618309objectivethird person, but limited to reporting what the characters say or do7
8634618310prose meaningthat part of a poem's total meaning that can be separated out and expressed through paraphrase8
8634619043prose poemusually a short composition having the intentions of poetry but written in prose rather than verse9
8634619713protagonistcentral character in a story or play10
8634620152quatraina four-line stanza, a four-line division of a sonnet marked off by it's rhyme scheme11
8634620153realistic dramadrama that attempts to preserve the illusion of actual, everyday life12
8634620816refraina repeated word, phrase, line or group of lines, normally at some fixed position on a poem written in stanzaic form13
8634621385rhetorical pausea natural pause, unmarked by punctuation, introduced into a reading of a line by its phrasing or syntax14
8634621789rhetorical poetrypoetry using using artificially eloquent language15
8634621790rhetorical stressin natural speech, the stress of words or syllables so as to emphasize meaning and sentence structure16
8634622558rhymerepetition of the accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in important words17
8634623347rhyme schemeany fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing a whole poem18
8634627603rhythmany wavelike recurrence of motion or sound19
8634689601rising actionthat development of plot in a story or play that proceeds and leads unto the climax20
8634690971run-on linea line that has no natural speech pause at its end, allowing the sense to flow unninteruptedly into the succeeding line21

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