Short Stories and Novels
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Izadorable333 on May 30, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 rising action | events leading up to the climax |
| falling action | events after the climax, leading to the resolution |
| main idea | what a piece of writing is mainly about |
| summary | a briefstatement that presents the main points in a concise form |
| excerpt | a passage selected from a larger work |
| tone | the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author |
| mood | is the emotional attitude the author takes toward his subject |
| climax | an arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of ascending power. Often the last emphatic word in one phrase or clauses is repeated as the first emphatic word of the next. |
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