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| point of view | the perspective or vantage point from which a story is told |
| third person point of view | the story is told by a narrator who provides more information about all the characters and events than any one character can know |
| first person point of view | the story is limited to the narrator's own words and knowledge |
| theme | the central idea, concern, or purpose in a literary work |
| suspense | a feeling of growing curiosity or axious uncertainy about the outcome of events in a literary work |
| foreshadowing | the use of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur |
| allegory | a story with more than one level of meaning- a literal level and one or more symbolic levels |