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36 Cards in this Set
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Plot
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The particular arrangement of actions, events and situations that unfold in a narrative.
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Dramatic situation
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The basic conflict that initiates a work or establishes a scene.
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Expostition
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The opening portionof a narrative or drama.The scene is set and characters are introduced
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complication/rising action
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a conflict that arises between charactures or an inner conflict of the main characture.
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Climax
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The momement of the greatest intensity of the story usually near the end of the work
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Denouement
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Resolution or the conclusion of a literary work plot complications are unraveled after climax
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Setting
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Time and place of a literary work.
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Gothic
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a genre that creates terror and suspense, usually set in an isolated castle,mansion
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Theme
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A generally recurring subject or idea that is observable in a literary work
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Epiphany
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a moment of insight or revelation usually occuring at the end of the literary work
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Tone
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an attitude toward a subject conveyed in a literary work.
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Irony
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when an author says one thing and means another
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Genre
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a preexsisting understanding between the reader and artists about thepurpose and rules of the work
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Symbol
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a person, place or thing that suggest a meaning beyond its literal sense.
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Metaphor
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a statement that one thing is something eles which in a literal sense it is not
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Simile
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a comparison of two things by using connection words like, as, than or resembles
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Flashback
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a scene relived in a charactures memory
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Foreshawdowing
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arranging events in just a certain way so the reader expects a certain outcome.
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Protagonsist
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The central character ina literary work. usually initiates the main action of the story
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Antagonist
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The charcter or force that opposes the Protagonist
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Characterization
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to create reaveal or develop a character
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Point of view
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Narrator's interpretation or angle from which a story is told. 1st person or third person
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First person narration
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A story in which the narrator is a participant in the action.
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Third person narration
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Non participant narrator
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omniscient
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all knowing narrator
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limited
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narrator sees into the minds of some of the characters but not all
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objective
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never gives opinions of what any of the characters are thinking.
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subjective
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only portraying one side of the veiw. narrator projects opinons and judgements and interprets it.
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A&P
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Author John Updike main character sammy antagonist Lengel
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Where are you going? where have you been
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Author Joyce Carol Oates
Main Connie Antagonist Arnold Friend |
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Teenage wastland
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by Anne Tyler
main character Daisy Donny antagonist |
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Greasy Lake
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Tom C Boyle
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Pair of Tickets
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Amy Tan
main Jing Mei |
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Cathedrial
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Raymond Carver
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Sonny's Blues
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James Baldwin
Sonny and his brother |
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The Rich Brother
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Tobias Wolff
Pete and Donald |
