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31 Cards in this Set
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Plot Pyramid in order, left to right
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Exposition, Inciting Incident, Rising Action, Climax, Crisis, Falling Action, Resolution, Denouement
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Fiction
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Prose created from the imagination.
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Prose
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Writing that uses straightforward language, doesn't have a rhythmic pattern.
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Works of fiction usually include...
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Character, plot, setting, and theme.
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Character
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A person who takes part in the action of literary work.
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Protagonist
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The main character of a story
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Antagonist
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A character who struggles against the main character
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Major Character
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One who plays an important role in a story.
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Minor Character
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One who plays a lesser role
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One-dimensional character
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Reveals only one quality or character trait.
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Three-dimensional character
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seems to have all the complexities of an actual human being
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Characterization
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The act of creating a character
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Three ways a character is created
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1)Showing what characters say, do, and think
2)Showing what other characters say about them 3)Showing what physical features, dress, and personality the character display. |
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Plot
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the plot of a work of fiction is the series of events or situations related to a struggle.
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Central conflict
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struggle
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Internal conflict
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takes place within a character
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External conflict
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a struggle between a character and an outside force
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Exposition
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the introduction of the setting and characters
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Inciting Incident
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the event that introduces the central conflict
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Climax
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the highest point of suspence in a story
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Crisis
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the point in the story where something happens to decide the course of events
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Resolution
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the point at which the central conflict ends
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Denouement
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any final material that finishes the story
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Theme
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the theme of a work of fiction is a central idea; not the moral; can be more than 1
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Subject
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“horses” “Apples”
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Mood
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the emotion created in the reader by a piece of writing
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Concrete Details
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words describing how something looks; sounds; smell; tastes; or feels
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Point of View
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the vantage point from which a story is told
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Short Story
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a brief work of fiction that contains a definite beginning; middle; and end
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Novel
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a long work of fictions that usually has more complex elements than a short story.
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Novella
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a work of fiction that is longer than a typical short story but shorter than a typical novel
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