Literary Terms

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Setting

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The physical location and/or time of the narrative or events of the narrative. Can be developed through description or inferred through context clues, word choice, and dialogue

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Dialogue

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Conversation between two or more characters

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Theme

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The view, belief, or message that is an underlying message of the narrative. Not directly stated but left to the reader to determine

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Point of View

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The writer's or narrator's position or stance on the topic they are writing about. Also known as perspective

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Third person limited point of view

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Author follows one character around and knows all things about this character.

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Mood

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The general atmosphere created by the author's words. The feeling the reader gets from reading the words.

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Inference

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A logical guess that is made based on facts and one's own knowledge and experience.

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explain

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When you make something easy for others to understand by giving reasons or causes

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contrast

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When you study the patterns of difference in two or more things; how they are different

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cause-effect

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A pattern of organization that arranges elements of an argument in a "because this happened, this resulted" sequence