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81 Cards in this Set
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Setting |
Time and place in which the action of the story takes place |
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Mood |
The emotion in the setting, action, characters (mood is felt by the reader) |
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Tone |
Authors attitude towards the story (ie. Playful, serious, ironic, formal, somber, etc.) |
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Plot |
Series of related incidents outlining the protagonists conflict |
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Exposition |
Lays out info necessary for the reader to understand the story |
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Rising action |
Main part of the story where the full problem develops |
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Climax |
Highest point in an action where the most exciting events occur (the turning point) |
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Falling action |
Follows climax. Events that bring the story to an end |
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Resolution or denouement |
End of the story when all the problems are solved |
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Initial situation |
Circumstances in which the protagonist find their self at the start if a story |
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Inciting situation |
Incidents that start the main conflicts of the story (sets the plot in motion and starts to change the initial situation) |
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Conflict |
The opposition between work characters. Problem or struggle in the story that the main character has t face |
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Internal conflict |
Individual vs fear, conscience, doubts |
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External conflict |
Individual vs individual, nature, supernatural, technology, society |
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Characterization |
Refers to who is in a story and the internal and external traits that make up the person. |
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Flat/static character |
Minor character who is static and unchanging |
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Dynamic/ round character |
One who goes through an important change in a story or novel |
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Character foil |
Character whose trait are uh direct contrast to those of the principal character (protagonist) |
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Character mirror |
Character who resembles another character in behaviour personality or actions |
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Antagonist |
Major character or force that opposes the protagonist |
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Protagonist |
Character who the author focuses attention on most. Central character in novel and goes through change through the struggles/conflicts they experience |
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Point of view |
The perspective it's told from |
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First person |
Story's f old by an "I". Narrator is involved in the story. |
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Persona |
Mask or identity a first person narrator uses to present story |
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Third person objective |
Narrator relates actions and quotations but they do not describe what any of the character think (no comments about the action) |
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Third person omniscient |
All knowing. Actions, dialogue, what they think. |
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Third person limited omniscient |
Thoughts of only ONE character |
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Theme |
Message the writer is trying to convey |
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Dialogue |
Conversation between two or more characters |
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Parallelism |
"Parallel incidents" (similar to each other in a way) |
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Contrast |
Contrasting events to develop one or more element of the story |
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Foreshadowing |
Important CLUES in a novel that prepares the reader or audience for the events that are to come. |
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Flashback |
Shifts the story from present to past |
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Symbolism |
2nd meaning (beyond literal) |
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Incongruity |
Occurs when the author places together things. (Images or events or characters that don't seem to be connected or compatible |
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Pathos |
When the reader feels sympathy for a character |
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Bathos |
Unsuccessful attempt to portray pathos. (Pathos exaggerated to become ridiculous) |
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In media res |
In the middle of things. Starting the story at a crucial part of the story |
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Narrative hook |
Strategy used by writers to immediately grab the attention of the reader |
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Cliche |
Overused expression that has little impact |
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Jargon |
Language of a particular group or profession |
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Satire |
Literature that ridicules vices. Attacks injustices and ills of society |
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Imagery |
Picture or impressions the writers create in the mind of their readers (visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory, olfactory) |
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Irony |
Two separate ideas which contracts |
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Verbal irony |
What is meant is the opposite of what is said |
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Dramatic irony |
Audience knows something the character doesn't |
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Situational irony |
Opposite of what is expected happens. |
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Allusion |
Indirect reference to any person, place or thing |
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Alliteration |
Repetition of the same consonant sound at the begining of successive words |
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Aside |
Short dialogue with one person that other characters can't hear |
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Catharsis |
Hopes for a character are satisfied (atleast the problems are solved) |
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Comic relief |
Humerus scene |
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Hamartia |
Tragic flaw that the character doesn't realize they have |
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In media res |
In the middle of things. |
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Pathetic fallacy |
Storm beats down on ships like Iago beating down women |
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Peripety |
Reversal (sudden change of events, circumstances or situations) |
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Return to normalcy |
Peace and order restored at the end regardless of how chaotic things were. |
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Nemesis or retribution justice |
Character gets what they deserve (good or bad) |
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Denotation |
Specific and exact meaning of a word (literal) |
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Connotation |
Metaphorical meaning behind a word |
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Abstract language |
Refers to things that are intangible (ie god love war) |
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Concrete language |
Things perceived through senses |
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Internal rhyme |
Correspondence of sound created by two or more words in the same line of verse |
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Rhyme |
Similarity of sound in words |
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Rhyme scheme |
Pattern of rhymes in a poem |
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Rhythm |
Uniform repetition of beat or accent |
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Poetic licence |
Liberty taken by a poet to produce a word that's not officially a word (grammar wise) |
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Apostrophe |
Direct a dress to a person thing or abstraction such as "o western wind" |
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Accent |
Emphasis on certain syllable |
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Couplet |
Pair of successive lines of verse that rhyme and are of same metrical length |
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Foot |
Group of syllables |
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Lamb |
Poet foot of 2 syllables. First unaccented, second accented |
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Italian sonnet or Petrachan |
14 lines divided into an octave and a sestet |
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Octave |
First 8 lines in an Italian sonnet |
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Pentameter |
Line of five metrical feet |
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Quatrain |
A stanza of four lines |
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Sestet |
Last 6 lines of an Italian sonnet |
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Shakesperean sonnet |
Poem of 14 lines arranged in 3 quatrains and one couplet |
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Sonnet |
Poem of 14 lines |
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Stress |
Accent or emphasis on syllables |
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Antithesis |
Device (figurative) in which contradictory ideas are exposed in a balanced phrase (ie. Not that I loved Ceasar less but that I loved rome more) |