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35 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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Our Town
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Thornton Wilder
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Everyday Use
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Alice Walker
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Hamlet
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Shakespeare
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The House on Mango Street
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Sandra Cisneros
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Christmas Memory
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Truman Capote
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Idylls of the King
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Cyrano de Bergerac
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Edmond Rostand
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Connecticut Yankee
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Mark Twain
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A Christmas Carol
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Charles Dickens
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Count of Monte Cristo
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Alexandre Dumas
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Sir Gaiwan and the Green Knight
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Brian Stone
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Roman Fever
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Edith Wharton
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Lamb to the Slaughter
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Roald Dahl
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With All Flags Flying
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Anne Tyler
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The End of Something
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Ernest Hemmingway
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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Thorton Wilder
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Le Morte d'Arthur
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Sir Thomas Malory
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History of the Kings of Britain
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Geoffrey of Monmouth
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same sort of person at end as was at beginning--doesn't change
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static character
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characterized by one or two traits--can be summed up in a sentence
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flat characters
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complex and many-sided--might require an essay for full analysis
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round character
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undergoes a permanent change in some aspect of character, personality, or outlook
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dynamic character
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story told in 3rd person by a narrator whose knowledge and perrogatives are unlimited--most flexible and widest scope
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omniscent point of view
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story told in 3rd person but from the viewpoint of one character in the story
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limited omniscent point of view
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author disappears into one of the characters who tells the story in first person
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first-person point of view
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narrator disappears into a kind of roving sound camera who can go anywhere but can only record what is seen and heard--readers must interpret themselves
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objective point of view
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piece's controlling idea or central insight
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theme
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sequence of events if which a story is composed and presented, in significant order
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plot
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central character in a conflict
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protagonist
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forces arrayed against the protagonist, whether it be things, people, society, or traits of their own characters
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antagonist
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who tells story and how it gets told
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point of view
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anything that stands for more than it is
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symbol
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comical piece of writing that makes the characteristics of a specific literary form
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parody
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clash of actions, ideas, desires, or wills
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conflict
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types of conflict
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man vs. man, man vs. self, man vs. nature
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