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33 Cards in this Set
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Crisis |
Part of the action where conflict reaches its greatest tension |
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Climax |
High point, action, decision. |
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Resolution |
Completing of story after climax |
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Flashback |
Present circumstances explained by past ones |
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Tone |
The methods by which writers reveal attitudes or feelings |
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Style |
Ways writers assemble words to tell the story |
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Diction |
The writers selection of words |
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Formal Diction |
Bestows importance to actions or characters being described |
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Neutral Diction |
Ordinary, standard language |
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Informal Diction |
From colloquial, to slang |
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Specific Language |
Words that bring to mind images from the real world |
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General Language |
Broad classes |
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Concrete words |
Describe qualities of immediate perception |
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Abstract Words |
Words that apply to many things |
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Denotation |
A limiting term - What a word means |
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Connotation |
What a word suggests |
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Verbal Irony |
One thing is said, the opposite is meant |
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Understatement |
Expression doesn't describe the importance of the situation |
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Hyperbole |
Words far in excess for the situation |
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Double entendre |
Ambiguous, double meaning |
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Narration |
The reporting of actions in sequential order |
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Epic |
A long fiction story, maybe based in truth, accepted as fact |
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Novel |
Used to describe lengthy romances |
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Vermisimilitude |
Made up with basis in realism, similar to human experience |
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Donnee |
A postulate or premise, nature of story |
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Character |
Reasonable representation of a human having good and bad traits |
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Organic Unity |
Development and resolution of conflict in which the protagonist is engaged |
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Structure |
the way the story is put together
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Idea |
The results of general and abstract thinking |
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Theme |
An exploration of an idea |
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Issue |
A character in opposition moments of decision
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POV |
seaker person or narrator created by author to present ideas |
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first person |
speaker has personally witnessed events (I perspective) |
