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| Allerory | a story in which the characters and settings and events stand for a certain other people or events or concepts. |
| Allusion | a reference to a statement, person, event, or thing that is know from literature, history, religion, myth, politics, sports, science, or pop culture. |
| Characterization | the process of revealing the personality of a character in a story. |
| Internal characterization | based on the evidence given by the writer, the readers must use their own judgment to decided what a character is like. |
| Direct characterization | the writer tells readers what kind of person a character is. |
| Static character | one who does not change much in the course of a story. |
| Dynamic character | one who changes as a result of the story's events. |
| Flat character | one who has one or two traits, nad these can be described in a short pharse. |
| Conflict | a struggle or clash between opposing characters or forces |
| Internal conflict | a struggle aginst internal emotions or thoughts |
| External conflict | a struggle aginst some outside forces |
| Dialect | a way of speaking that is charastic of a perticular region or group of people |
| Round character | one who, like a person has many different character traits. sometimes contridictory |
| Connotation | all the meanings and emotions associated with a word |
| Diction | the writer or speakers choice of words |
