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26 Cards in this Set
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Characters/ Characterization |
The development of the character through out the story |
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Point of View |
the view or angle from which a narrator prestents a story. |
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Realism |
Any drama that seeks to closely mimic real life. sort of drama that rose in opposition to melodrama |
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Third-person narrator |
where the story teller is not identified. |
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Diction |
a writers selection of words: kind of words, phrases, and figurative language. |
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emiphany |
The ability of the audience to relate to, even expirence the emotions of characters onstage or in a text |
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symbolism |
use of objects or events to suggest meaning beyond their immediate, physical presence. |
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Fiction |
any imagininative usuallly prose work of literature. |
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Plot |
cause and effect, sequence of major events
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Setting |
the context for the action: the time, place, culture, and atmosphere |
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Short story |
all the characters have a purpose of reinforcing the story. |
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Theme |
central idea embodied by or explored in a literary work |
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Foreshadowing |
words, gestures, or other actions that suggest future events or outcomes |
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Dialogue |
words spoken by characters, often in conversation |
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Catharsis |
The purging of emotions of fear and pity. A way of viewing a tragedy |
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Hamartia |
"tragic flaw" |
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peripeteia |
a reversal or a change of fortune for a character for better or worse |
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Tragedy |
A play in which the plot moves from relative stability to death or other serious sorrow for the protagonist
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Fourth wall |
The theatrical convention, dating form the ninteenth century, whereby an audience seems to be looking and listening through an invisible fourth wall usually into a room in a private residence. fourth wall is primarly associated with realism and domesic dramas |
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Tone |
the implied attitude or stance toward the subject and toward the reader or audience in a story |
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epiphany |
an appearance or manifestation, especially of a divine being; i |
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Alliteration |
The repetition of idenical consonant sounds in the stressed syllables of words relatively near to eachother |
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Figurative Languge |
using language employing metaphore or simile or others figures of speech. |
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Rhythm |
a patterned movement of language created by the choice of words and their arrangements usually describing |
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Personification |
figure of speech in which something nonhuman is treated as if it had human characteristics or preformed human actions |
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Sonnet |
a fourteen line poem usuallly written in iambic pentameter |
