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23 Cards in this Set
- Front
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Plot
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The natural events in a story
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Setting
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The time and place of a story is written.
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Indirect Characterization
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Development of a character through words, actions, thoughts or those words, actions, and thoughts of another character.
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Direct Characterization
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The author introduces the character by describing the character's personality in detail.
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Irony
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When the unexpected happens. Suprise
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Resolution
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The part of the plot where story is concluded and all loose ends are tied up. |
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Theme
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The lesson about life the author wants the reader to learn.
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Foreshadowing
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Hints an author gives about things that may happen in a story.
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Flashback |
An interruption of the events in a plotto remember the past. |
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Climax |
The part of the plot where the character's problem is relved. she or he is always involved in the main conflict and it resolution.
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Mood
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The feeling the vocabulary uses conveys to the reader. |
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Tone
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The writer's attutude towards his/her subject.
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Protagonist
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The main character in the story, is always involved in the main conflict and resolution.
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Antagonist
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The opposing character to the protagonist.
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Internal Conflict
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When the protagonist has confict with themselves
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External Conflict
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When the character experices conflict with other characters, soceity, or nature.
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Expostion
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The expostion is thge portion of a story that introduces the important background info.
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Rising Action
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The events that is lead to the climax but just after the introduction
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Falling Action
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The part that is after the climax and befor ehte conclusion. At this part, there are some unresolved
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Flat Characterization
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A character who has one or two sides, representing on or two traits- often a sterotype.
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Round Characterizaton
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A character who is comples and has many sides or traits with unpredictible behavior and a fully developed peronality.
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Dynamic Characterization
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A character who experiences an essential change in personality or attitude. Most often the protagonists in the story. |
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Static Characterization |
A character who does not change or develop beyond the way in which she or he was first presented.
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