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42 Cards in this Set
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Narrator |
A person telling the story |
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1rst person |
Narrator is part of the story |
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3rd person |
Narrator is just telling the story |
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Limited 3rd person |
Knows thoughts of only one character |
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Omniscient 3rd person |
Knows thoughts of all charaters |
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Nonfiction |
Factual writing dealing with real people and experiences. Nonfiction includes biographies, autobiographys,and essays |
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Personification |
Giving human qualities to non human |
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Plot |
The sequence of events in a story |
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Exposition |
Introduces the characters, settings, and situations |
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Rising action |
Adds complications to the story's conflict or problem |
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Falling action |
Everything that happens between the conflict and the resolution |
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Resolution |
Final outcome of the story (sometimes it's the happily ever after) |
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Point of view |
The relationship of the narrator to the story |
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1rst person |
The relationship of the narrator to the story |
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3rd person |
The story is just being told |
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Protagonist |
The main character of the story |
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Rising Action |
Adds complications to the story's conflict or problem |
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Science Fiction |
Fiction dealing with the impact of real science or imaginary super science on human or alien societies of the past, present, or future |
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Settings |
The time and place in which the events of a short story, novel, novella, or play occur |
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Short story |
A brief fictional story |
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Simile |
A figure of speech using like or as to compare seemingly unlike things |
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Suspense |
A feeling of curiosity, uncertainly, or even dread about what is going to happen |
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Symbolism |
Something that stand for something else |
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Tall Tale |
A wildly imaginative story usually passed down orally about fantastic adventures of amazing feats of folk heroes in realistic local setting |
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Theme |
The main idea of a story, poem,novel,or play, usually expressed as general statement |
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Stated theme |
Expressed directly |
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Implied theme |
Revealed gradually through other elements such as plot, character, settings, point of view, symbol,and ironly |
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Tone |
The attitude of the narrator toward the subject,ideas, themes, or character |
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Analyze |
To evaluate and break down |
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Annotate |
To take notes |
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Archetype |
The original pattern or model or all thing the same type |
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Denouement |
The final outcome of the dramatic complications in a literary work |
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Dialect |
A regional variety of language |
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Diction |
Choice of words especially with regard to correctness |
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Summarize |
To tell by briefly giving the main points |
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Syntax |
The way words are put together to form phrases clauses or sentences |
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Appositive |
A noun placed next to another noun to identify or or add information about it |
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Dependent Clause |
(subordinate clause)has a subject and a predicate but it makes sense only when attached to main clause |
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Independent Clause |
(Main clause ) has a subject and a predicate, but it makes sense only attached to a main clause |
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Infinitive |
A verbal made up to and a base form of a very to sing, to swim, to comprehend |
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Preposition |
A word that shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other words in a sentence |
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Thesis Statement |
A one or two sentence statement of the main idea or purpose of a piece of writing |
