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28 Cards in this Set
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Narrator |
Speaker; person from whom the story is told |
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Participant |
Dramatized character that says "I" |
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Observer |
Minor character standing to the side, watching the story |
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Nonparticipant |
Does not appear as a character |
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All knowing (Omniscient) |
Sees into the minds of characters |
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Editorial Omniscience |
Adds occasional comment or opinion |
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Impartial Omniscience |
Presents feelings and actions, but does not judge or comment |
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Limited Omniscience |
Non participating sees through the eyes of a single character |
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Objective Point of View |
does not see in, but describes events |
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Innocent or Naive Narrator |
Fails to understand |
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Unreliable Narrator |
Deceptive and unreliable |
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Stream of Consciousness |
Possession of thoughts steaming through the mind |
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Interior monologue |
Character's thoughts, as if they were speaking out loud to themselves |
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Total Omniscience |
Knowledge of mind of all characters |
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Tone |
Authors attitude |
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Style |
Traits or characteristics of a piece of writing |
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Diction |
Word choice |
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Minimalists |
Flat, laid-back, and unemotional |
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Allegory |
A story when persons, places, or things form a system of clearly labeled equivalents |
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Symbol |
A thing that suggests more than the literal meaning |
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Symbolic Act |
Gesture with a larger significance than usual |
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Figures of Speech |
Departs from usual denotations of words |
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Implied Metaphor |
Not using connective words |
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Mixed Metaphors |
A combination of two or more incompatible metaphors, ridiculous effect |
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Metonymy |
Substituted by a closely related thing |
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Syechdoche |
Part of a thing, used to represent the whole |
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Transfered Epithet |
Personification with an adjective |
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Paradox |
Self-contridictory statement |
