Ap Lit Mid-Term

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Freytag's Pyramid

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Exposition

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Used to give background information about events, settings, characters etc.

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Inciting Incident

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Event or decision that begins a stories problems and draws the reader in

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Rising action

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Leads up to the climax of the story

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Falling Action

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Parts of the story after the climax

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Denoument

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The final part of a play or movie

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In medeas res

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When a story begins in the middle

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Flashback

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A point in a book or play that is set in a time earlier than the main story. Reflecting on a memory

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1st Person Narration

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Main character is telling the story (ex: I, we, me, my, mine)

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2nd person narration

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This person is typically telling the story about another person using the words he and she

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3rd person narration

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This person is telling a story to you or about you

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Static character

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Unchanging

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Flat Character

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Boring, basic character

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Round Character

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A character that is fully developed and known

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Stock Character

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A cardboard, very stereotypical character

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Foil character

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A character whose traits mimic or mirror the traits of another character

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Protagonist

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The main character

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Antagonist

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Traits contrast with the protagonist

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External conflict

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~Man vs Man

~Man vs Nature

~Man vs Society

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Internal Conflict

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~Man vs Himself

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Setting

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Mood

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Tone

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Authors attitude

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Symbol

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An item that suggests more than its literal meaning

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Theme

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Central ideas or meanings of a text

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Style

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The way an author uses literary elements and words

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Doppelganger

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A double

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Mla format

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Tradgedy

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The downfall of a basically good person through some fatal error or misjudgment, producing suffering and insight on the part of the protagonist and arousing pity and fear on the part of the audience

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Comedy

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Story filled with humorous irony, typically starts bad and ends good

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Catharsis

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Pulls emotion out of the audience

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Hamartia

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A fatal flaw that usually leads to the downfall of a character

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Tragic Irony

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When the audience knows more than the characters do

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Anagorisis

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When a tragic insight occurs

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Kenning

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A term for old english phrases 'Sky candle'

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Dionysus

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Greek God of wine

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What story did Sophocles write ?

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Oedipus the King

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What is the difference between theme and topic?

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Topic- central idea of the story

Theme- Why the story was written, the meaning

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Illiteration

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When something starts and ends the same

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Want

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A lack of

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'The Mouse Trap'

(Hamlet)

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The mouse trap was used by Hamlet when he created a fake play to trap Claudius and kill him.

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In a story you need this one major thing. What is it?

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A conflict

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In what year did the Norman conquest occur?

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1066

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Scop

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The storyteller

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Brevity

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Speaking Briefly

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What happened at the end of 'The House of Usher'

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The house collapses