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20 Cards in this Set
- Front
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Exposition
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Gives the reader important background information
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Conflict
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A problem or struggle of some kind
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Ironic
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A situation when the outcome of events is the opposite of what is expected or believed to be true
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Climax
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The point of greatest intestity. It determines how the story will turn out
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Resoultion
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Final part of a story in which the conflict is resolved, or worked out
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Flashback
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An interuption that sometimes a an author will interupt a narrative to relate an incident that has already occured
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Suspense
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In a story it is an element that keeps you guessing about the outcome of the events
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Foreshadowing
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Method of building clues to the outcome of the action
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Coincidence
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is the accidental coming together of things or events in a way that seems planned or arranged rather that natural
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Protagonist
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The main character
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Characterization
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The way a writer presents a character in a story
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Direct Characterization
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Is when the writer reveals the character directly to the read
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Indirect Characterization
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The writer allows you to draw your conclusion about a character
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Credibility
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Is when the characters behave like real people to have credibility or believability
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Consistency
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To be believable characters must have consistency if a character undergoes a change there must be sufficient reason to explain it.
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Motivation
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Reason, to account for a character's action
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Static
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When the characters do not change in a meaningful way. At the end they have the same personalities that they had at the beginning.
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Dynamic
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Characters who undergo some important change
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Stereotypes
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A character behavior is predictable because it is passed on a pattern that remains the same from one story to another
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Personification
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The presentation of an abstract quality or idea as a human being
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