English 9 Lit Vocab

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Internal Conflict

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Characters emotional struggle inside his head, which leads him to make a decision

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External Conflict

Back 2

Character battles outside force like: man v. man/man v. nature/man v. society

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Chacterization

Back 3

Reader learns info about the charcter

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Protagonist

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Main Character who is the 'good guy'

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Act

Back 5

Division of plot within play; similiar to how a chapter divides a novel

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Antagonist

Back 6

Main Character who oppoes the protagonist; 'bad guy'

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Climax

Back 7

Breaking point in story; Conflict explodes

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Aside

Back 8

Character speaks directly to the audience; other characters freeze; 'Interactive Pause'

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Irony

Back 9

What you think will happens, the opposite actually happens; 'Funny Coincidence'

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Conflict

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The struggle between opposing forces in a story; either external, or internal

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Character

Back 11

A person represented in a drama, story, etc.; a part or role, as in a play or film

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Resolution

Back 12

The end of a story; the consequences of the conflict

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Plot

Back 13

Also called storyline. The plan, scheme, or main story of a story or novel

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Fiction

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something invented, or imagined; a made-up story; not real; FAKE

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Expositon

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Beginning of the story; tells reader the setting, characters, and Conflict

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Mood

Back 16

Overall atmosphere of the novel; the Tone

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Soliloquy

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Character speaks his innermost private thoughts alone on stage

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Drama

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Story told through a dialogue and actions of characters; another word for play

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Third Person POV

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Speaker of a play who isnt in the play, referring to people in the story as: “He,” “she,” “it,” and “they”

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First Person POV

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Speaker of a play who is in the play, referring to himself or herself or to a group including himself or herself, as "I" and "we" in story

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Iambic Pentameter

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Line of 10 syllables
5 stressed
5 unstressed

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Blank Verse

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Poem that does not rhyme

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Prose

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Anything written in paragragh format

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Meter

Back 24

Unit of measurement of Lit
Lyrical Foot
(pattern of Symbols)

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Symbol

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Represents something else

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Characterization

Back 26

Learn about the Character in 5 ways:

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Flashback

Back 27

To recall to something that has already happened