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the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text
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a person or company that prepares and issues books, journals, music, or other works for sale
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a category of literary composition determined by literary technique, tone, content, or length.
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a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning
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a main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work that may be stated directly or indirectly
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a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary
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the originator or writer of any written work
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written stories about people and events that are not real
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language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation
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a literary element that involves a struggle between two opposing force
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a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people
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a fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism
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a narrative term defined as the events that make up a story, particularly: as they relate to one another in a pattern or in a sequence
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written or spoken language in its ordinary form
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the historical moment in time and geographic location in which a story takes place
