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Setting

Time and place in which the action of the story takes place

Mood

The emotion in the setting, action, characters (mood is felt by the reader)

Tone

Authors attitude towards the story (ie. Playful, serious, ironic, formal, somber, etc.)

Plot

Series of related incidents outlining the protagonists conflict

Exposition

Lays out info necessary for the reader to understand the story

Rising action

Main part of the story where the full problem develops

Climax

Highest point in an action where the most exciting events occur (the turning point)

Falling action

Follows climax. Events that bring the story to an end

Resolution or denouement

End of the story when all the problems are solved

Initial situation

Circumstances in which the protagonist find their self at the start if a story

Inciting situation

Incidents that start the main conflicts of the story (sets the plot in motion and starts to change the initial situation)

Conflict

The opposition between work characters. Problem or struggle in the story that the main character has t face

Internal conflict

Individual vs fear, conscience, doubts

External conflict

Individual vs individual, nature, supernatural, technology, society

Characterization

Refers to who is in a story and the internal and external traits that make up the person.

Flat/static character

Minor character who is static and unchanging

Dynamic/ round character

One who goes through an important change in a story or novel

Character foil

Character whose trait are uh direct contrast to those of the principal character (protagonist)

Character mirror

Character who resembles another character in behaviour personality or actions

Antagonist

Major character or force that opposes the protagonist

Protagonist

Character who the author focuses attention on most. Central character in novel and goes through change through the struggles/conflicts they experience

Point of view

The perspective it's told from

First person

Story's f old by an "I". Narrator is involved in the story.

Persona

Mask or identity a first person narrator uses to present story

Third person objective

Narrator relates actions and quotations but they do not describe what any of the character think (no comments about the action)

Third person omniscient

All knowing. Actions, dialogue, what they think.

Third person limited omniscient

Thoughts of only ONE character

Theme

Message the writer is trying to convey

Dialogue

Conversation between two or more characters

Parallelism

"Parallel incidents" (similar to each other in a way)

Contrast

Contrasting events to develop one or more element of the story

Foreshadowing

Important CLUES in a novel that prepares the reader or audience for the events that are to come.

Flashback

Shifts the story from present to past

Symbolism

2nd meaning (beyond literal)

Incongruity

Occurs when the author places together things. (Images or events or characters that don't seem to be connected or compatible

Pathos

When the reader feels sympathy for a character

Bathos

Unsuccessful attempt to portray pathos. (Pathos exaggerated to become ridiculous)

In media res

In the middle of things. Starting the story at a crucial part of the story

Narrative hook

Strategy used by writers to immediately grab the attention of the reader

Cliche

Overused expression that has little impact

Jargon

Language of a particular group or profession

Satire

Literature that ridicules vices. Attacks injustices and ills of society

Imagery

Picture or impressions the writers create in the mind of their readers (visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory, olfactory)

Irony

Two separate ideas which contracts

Verbal irony

What is meant is the opposite of what is said

Dramatic irony

Audience knows something the character doesn't

Situational irony

Opposite of what is expected happens.

Allusion

Indirect reference to any person, place or thing

Alliteration

Repetition of the same consonant sound at the begining of successive words

Aside

Short dialogue with one person that other characters can't hear

Catharsis

Hopes for a character are satisfied (atleast the problems are solved)

Comic relief

Humerus scene

Hamartia

Tragic flaw that the character doesn't realize they have

In media res

In the middle of things.

Pathetic fallacy

Storm beats down on ships like Iago beating down women

Peripety

Reversal (sudden change of events, circumstances or situations)

Return to normalcy

Peace and order restored at the end regardless of how chaotic things were.

Nemesis or retribution justice

Character gets what they deserve (good or bad)

Denotation

Specific and exact meaning of a word (literal)

Connotation

Metaphorical meaning behind a word

Abstract language

Refers to things that are intangible (ie god love war)

Concrete language

Things perceived through senses

Internal rhyme

Correspondence of sound created by two or more words in the same line of verse

Rhyme

Similarity of sound in words

Rhyme scheme

Pattern of rhymes in a poem

Rhythm

Uniform repetition of beat or accent

Poetic licence

Liberty taken by a poet to produce a word that's not officially a word (grammar wise)

Apostrophe

Direct a dress to a person thing or abstraction such as "o western wind"

Accent

Emphasis on certain syllable

Couplet

Pair of successive lines of verse that rhyme and are of same metrical length

Foot

Group of syllables

Lamb

Poet foot of 2 syllables. First unaccented, second accented

Italian sonnet or Petrachan

14 lines divided into an octave and a sestet

Octave

First 8 lines in an Italian sonnet

Pentameter

Line of five metrical feet

Quatrain

A stanza of four lines

Sestet

Last 6 lines of an Italian sonnet

Shakesperean sonnet

Poem of 14 lines arranged in 3 quatrains and one couplet

Sonnet

Poem of 14 lines

Stress

Accent or emphasis on syllables

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)