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- setting
- The time and place of story, play or narrative poem
- rapacious
- greedy
- congenial
- pleasent, agreeable
- alliteration
- the repetition of constant sounds in words that are close togather
- fiction
- a prose account that is made up rather then true
- facades
- front of a building
- personification
- a figure of speech in which an object or animal is spoken as if it had human feelings, or thoughts or attitudes
- allusion
- a reference to someone or something from literature, history religion mythology politics sports or another field that many people are familiar with
- conflict
- a struggle between opposing character or opposing forces
- sterotype
- a fixed idea about the members of a particular group of people that does not allow for any indivdulaity
- simile
- A comparison between two unlike things using a word such as like, as, than, or resembles
- point of view
- the vantage point in which the story is told
- foreshadowing
- the use of clues or hints to suggest events that will occur later in a plot
- plot
- the series of related events that make up a story
- protagonist
- The main character in a work of literature
- irony
- a contrast between expectation and reality
- emanate
- come forth
- charcter
- A person or animal that takes part in litrary work.
- tantalizing
- teasing by remaining unavalible or by with holding something desired by someone; tempting
- symbolism
- someone/something that stands for another
- theme
- the main idea in a work of literature
- metaphor
- a comparison between two unlike things in which one thing becomes anohter thing
- antagonist
- opposing the , opposing the protagonist
- non-fiction
- prose writing that deals with real people events and places without changing facts
- flashback
- interruption in the present action of a plot to show events that happened at an earlier time