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Chris B. (United States of America)
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  1. autobiography
    a book or account of your own life
  2. biography
    an account of the series of events making up a person's life
  3. character
    an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction
  4. characterization
    the act of describing essential features
  5. description
    the act of depicting something
  6. dialogue
    a conversation between two persons
  7. fiction
    a literary work based on the imagination
  8. flashback
    an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience
  9. foil
    a person or thing that serves to contrast with another
  10. idiom
    expression whose meaning cannot be inferred from its words
  11. image
    a visual representation produced on a surface
  12. moral
    the significance of a story or event
  13. novel
    an extended fictional work in prose
  14. personification
    attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
  15. plot
    devise the sequence of events in
  16. setting
    the state of the environment in which a situation exists
  17. suspense
    excited anticipation of an approaching climax
Created on Sun Sep 08 14:34:24 EDT 2013

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