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40 Cards in this Set
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Setting |
The time and place in which the narrative occurs. |
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mood |
A story's atmosphere or feeling that evokes the reader. |
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Protagonist |
The leading character in literary work. |
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Antagonist |
A character or force in a story or play that opposes the chief character or protagonist. |
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Characterization |
The methods an author uses to develop the qualities and personalities of a person's story. |
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Types of characters |
round, Flat, and stereotype |
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Round character |
Any character that has many individual and dynamic traits. |
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Flat character |
A character, usually a minor, who is not individualized and rounded, but who is relatively undeveloped, static, and unchanging. |
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stereotype |
A conventional character that possesses little or no individuality. |
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Narrator |
The voice telling the story. |
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First Person |
The teller, or the narrator, is a character in the story. |
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Third person limited |
an outside narrator enters the mind of only one character and records the thoughts and feelings of that character alone. |
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Third person omniscent |
an outside narrator who knows everything about the characters and can enter their minds and comment on their thoughts, actions, and feelings. |
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Plot |
A series of related events selected by the author to present and bring about the resolutions of some conflict or problem. |
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exposition |
the first stage of plot structure, in which the author supplies background and introduces characters, setting, and situations. |
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complication |
marks the onset of the major conflict in the story- the onset of the plot. |
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Rising Action |
the action in play before the climax |
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Climax |
the point in a work of highest suspense, in which results on the conflict become inevitable. |
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Falling Action |
the action in play after the climax |
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Resolution or denouement |
the final stage of the plot developed; the conflict is resolved or settled |
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suspense |
Any device used by the author to maintain the readers interest or heighten anxiety |
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flashback |
The interruption of the narrative to show an episode that happened before that particular point in the story |
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foreshadowing |
The technique providing the reader or viewer with hints, clues, or indications about the future action of the story or play. |
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theme |
the main idea underlying meaning of literary work |
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tone |
authors attitude or feeling toward a character or subject of the story. |
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pathos |
when the writer evokes pity or sadness in the reader |
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style |
the distinctive handling of language by the author |
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symbol |
person or place or event that has a meaning in itself, but suggests other meanings as well |
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allegory |
narrative in which characters and settings stand for abstract ideas or moral qualities |
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simile |
comparison of two things using like or as |
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metophor |
comparison of two things without using like or as |
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personification |
kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects characteristics |
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paradox |
statement the contradicts itself |
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oxymoron |
form of paradox the=at combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression |
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pun |
play on words |
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allusion |
brief indirect reference to a person, place, thing, event, or aspect of culture |
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idiom |
expression meaning something different than the literal meaning of the words |
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irony |
used to describe contest between what appears to be and what really is. |
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sarcasm |
type of irony that a person may use to praise something while he or she is actually insulting them. |
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imagery |
representation in language of sense experience. -visual -auditory -olfacotry -gustatory -tactile -kinesthetic -kinetic |
