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    Answer the following questions
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  • A story with a fully developed theme but significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel.
    Short Story
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  • What do you call a story set within a story, narrative, or movie, told by the main or the supporting character?
    Frame Story
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  • The “where and when” of a story. It is the time and place during which the story takes place.
    Setting
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  • The person, animals, and things participating in a story.
    Characters
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  • The dramatic struggle between two forces in a story.
    Conflict
  •  10
  • The central, general message, the main idea, the controlling topic about life or people the author wants to get across through a literary work.
    Theme
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  • The organized pattern or sequence of events that make up a story.
    Plot
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  • A narrative device, often used at the beginning of a work that provides necessary background information about the characters and their circumstances.
    Exposition
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  • The third part of the plot; a time at which a decisive change in a situation occurs, especially one with beneficial results or the most intense, exciting, or important point of something.
    Climax
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  • The end of the story where loose ends are tied up.
    Resolution
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  • What do you call the choice of words that the writer uses in literature?
    Diction
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  • The hints/clues that can help us to unlock the difficult word.
    Context Clues
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  • The author uses words and phrases that have the same or similar meaning as an unfamiliar word. Words used are: like, as, similar to, in the same way, likewise, resembling, too, also
    Comparison/Synonym Clue
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  • The author uses another word or phrase that means the opposite of an unfamiliar word. Words used are: But, however, although, otherwise, unless, instead of, on the contrary, on the other hand, while, unlike.
    Contrast/Antonym Clue
  •  15
  • The Story-Teller by Saki is an example of ...
    Novel
    Poem
    Short Story
    Drama
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  • Enumerate the 5 parts of a plot.
    Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action and Resolution
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