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40 Cards in this Set
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Conflict; dramatic confrontation
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Agon
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A reference (to some other work/historical event/personage/ etc. outside the given work)
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Allusion
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The other force or forces which may be essentially external or essentially internal
- another character or group of characters - force of nature or power of universe - society or culture - an aspect of the protagonists own personality or value system |
Antagonist
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Character is developed by description, both of the character and the things they possess or inhabit, by gesture and action--what they do, and by language —what they say and what kind of language do they use to say it.
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Character
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A three dimensional and humanly complex character in a story, play, film, etc.
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Round character
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A two dimensional, simple character that embodies a single idea or quality in a story etc.
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Flat character
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Evolves under the pressure of events of a story etc.; changes; we recognize the consequence of events upon the character
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Dynamic character
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A character who does not change or develop
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Static character
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The moment of supreme tension
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Climax
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Tension between opposing forces that makes the plot move and holds events together
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Conflict
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The suggesting of a meaning by a word apart from the thing it explicitly names or describes; something suggested by a word or thing
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Connotation
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A direct specific meaning as distinct from an implied or associated idea
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Denotation
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Resolution of the conflict in the plot
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Denouement
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Verbal exchanges between characters
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Diologue
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Incongruity between a situation developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play
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Dramatic/Tragic Irony
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A revelation; a moment of sudden recognition
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Epiphany
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Background information necessary to understand the opening situation
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Exposition
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Continuing action of the plot, after the climax.
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Falling action
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Calculated exaggeration
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Hyperbole
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Information that appeals to the 5 senses
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Imagery
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Incongruity between what actually happens and what might be expected to happen; the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning; incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result
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Irony
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Calculated understatement
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Litotes
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A direct comparison
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Metaphor
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A figure of speech that yokes together two seemingly contradictory elements
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Oxymoron
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Attributing human qualities to non-human things
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Personification
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An "I" tells the story
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First person narrator or character-narrator
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Story addressed to a you
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Second person
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He, she, it
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Third person
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The events or actions of a story, novel etc.; what happens
- Aristotle: the imitation of an action |
Plot
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Visual, Rhythmic, Sonic, Imagistic, Ideational
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Poetry Fields
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The central character of a narrative
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Protagonist
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Increasing tension in the conflict; suspense
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Rising action
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Where the story happens; time, place, scenery, physical elements
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Setting
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A comparison using like or as
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Simile
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a speech a character delivers to him or herself; thinking out loud
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Soliloquy
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A figure of speech which combines a literal, concrete quality with a suggestive, abstract dimension
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Symbol
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Illusion of reality; a true likeness
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Verisimilitude
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The belief that that all things are inhabited by spirits
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Animism
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An example that serves as pattern or model. The conceptual framework that permits the explanation and investigation of phenomena or the objects of study in a field of inquiry.
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Paradigm
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Prohibited by forbidden prohibition
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Tabboo
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