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19 Cards in this Set
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Plot |
The natural events in the story |
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Setting |
The time and place a story is written
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Inderect 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 characters personality in detail
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Irony
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When the unexpected happens/ a 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 a 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
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An interruption of the events in the plot to remember the past
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Climax
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The part of the plot where the characters problem is solved/ the height of the rising action
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Mood
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The feeling the vocabulary used conveys to the reader
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Tone |
The writers attitude towards his/her subject
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Protagonist
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The main character in a story is called a protagonist, she or he is always involved in the main conflict and its resolution
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Antagonist
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The person opposing the protagonist is called the atagonist
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Internal Conflict
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The protagonist in the story expierences conflict with her or his conscience, more than the main character can expierence INTERNAL CONFLICT
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External Conflict
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Is when the character expierences conflict with other characters,society, or nature |
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Exposition
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The exposition is the portion of a story that introduces important backround information to the audie3nce
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Rising Action
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The rising action of a story is that series of events that begin immediately after the exposition of the story and builds up to the climax
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Falling Actions
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Falling action of a story refers to the part of a story that comes immediately after the climax and before the conclusions, at this part there are some unresolved
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