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| Exposition | The part of a play or a literary work that provides the background information needed to understand the characters and the action. |
| Climax | The point of highest dramatic intensity in a story line;the point toward which all of the action builds |
| D‚nouement | (French: to unknot, undo) The final unraveling of the plot; the resolution, the explanation or outcome |
| Plot | The pattern of events or the main story line of a literary work; what happens; the sequence of action |
| Personification | A figure of speech that endows animals, inanimate objects, and forces of nature with human form, characteristics, or sensibilities. |
| Conflict | The struggle between two opposing forces in a plot (external, and internal) |
| Setting | The time, place, and circumstances in which a narrative,drama,or film takes place. |
| Atmosphere | The tone or mood of a literary work, established in part by setting or landscape. |
| Tone | The emotional attitude of the narrator i a literary work; the narrator's mood. |
| Imagery | The use of figure of speech vivid descriptions to produce mental images |
| Symbol | Something that itself and yet stands for or means something else. |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech in which a word or phase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison. |
| Simile | A figure of speech comparing to unlike things that is often introduced by like or as. |
| Hyperbole | An exaggeration of extravagant statement used as a figure of speech to heighten effect or produce comic effect. |
