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Deictics / climax |
words like now, then, here, today as well as personal pronouns like I, you and some tenses of verbs whose reference depends on the particular speaker and his/her position in time/ the height of a protagonists problem |
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indirect discourse / crisis |
when narrator recounts characters speech indirectly (he said he would go to sleep and maybe see her tomorrow) / the turning point of the fortune of the protagonist |
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Free-indirect discourse / emblem |
when the narrator recounts the characters speech indirectly and often from the voice of the character (he would go to sleep, maybe see her in the morning) / an object or vent who's significance is made determinate by its qualities and the role it plays in an allegorical narrative |
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Realistic fiction / theme |
written to give the effect that it represents life and the social world as it seems to the common reader, evoking the sense that its characters might in fact exist and that such things might well happen / a general concept or doctrine which an imaginative work is deigned to involve and make persuasive to the reader |
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Naturalism / motif |
a mode of fiction derived from post- Darwinian biology in which humans are represented as part of an indifferent natural world and their character is determined by heredity and environment / a conspicuous element such as a type of event, device or formula that occurs frequently in works of literature |
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plot / lietmotif |
the rendering and ordering/sequencing of events or actions within a dramatic or narrative work to achieve particular emotional effects / the frequent repetition, within a single work, of a significant verbal or musical phrase, or set description or complex of images |
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story |
all events that take place or can be inferred to have taken place within a fictional narrative; generally a linear synopsis |
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protagonist |
chief character in a plot |
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antagonist |
opponent to the protagonist in the plot |
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exposition |
the insertion of important background knowledge about events, characters or settings important to understanding the story |
