English Test 1

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fiction

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an imagined story, whether in prose, poetry, or drama, or an imagined character; writers embellish and embroider and alter actual life when the use real life as the basis for their work

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plot

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unified structure of incidents in a literary work

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conflict

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a struggle between opposing forces in a story or play usually resolved by the end of the work, may occur within a character as well as between characters

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exposition

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the 1st stage of a fictional or dramatic plot, in which necessary background information is provided

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complications

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an intensification of the conflict in a story or play. bulilds up accumulates and develops the primary or central conflict in a literary work

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climax

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the turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story; represents the point of greatest tension in the work

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falling action

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in the plot of the story or play, the action following the climax of the work that moves it towards its denouement of resolution

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resolution or denouement

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the resolution of the plot of a literary work; the sorting out or unraveling of a plot at the end of a play novel or story

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structure

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the design or form of the completed action

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protagonist

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the major or main character

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antagonist

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a character or force against which another character struggles

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static character

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minor characters that are unchanging

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dynamic characters

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characters that exhibt some kind of change as the story progresses

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setting

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the place or location of a story's action along with the time in which it occurs

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objective point of view

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the writer shows what happens without directly stating more than readers can infer from its action and dialogue

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first person point of view

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stories with narrators who participate in the action

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omniscient point of view

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narrators who enters the minds of each of the characters and reveals what they think and feel

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limitied omniscience

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narrators knowledge is limited to only one character major or minor rather than to all

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style

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the way an author chooses words, and arranges them in sentences or in lines of dialogue or verse and develops ideas and actions with description, imagery, and other literary techniques

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diction

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the selection of words in a literary work

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simile

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a figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though

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metaphor

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a comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as

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theme

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the idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language, character, and action and cast in the form of a generalization

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irony

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a contrast or discrepancy between what is said and what is meant or between what happens and what is expected to happen in life and in literature

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verbal irony

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characters say the opposite of what the mean

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irony of circumstance or situation

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the opposite of what is expected occurs

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dramatic irony

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a character speaks in ignorance of a situation of a situation or event known to the audience or to the other characters

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paradox

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seemingly self contradictory statement that on reflection makes sense

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grotesque

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term Poe borrowed to suggest terror associated with the bizarre

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arabesque

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term Poe borrowed to suggest the beautiful associated with the poetic

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dramatic monologue

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a poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener

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denotation

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dictionary meaning of a word

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connotation

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associations both personal and public

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symbol

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any object or action that represents something beyond itself

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syntax

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arrangement of words in a sentence, phrase, or clause

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theme

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idea or intellectually apprehensible meaning inherent and implicit in a work

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satire

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exposes human folly, criticizes human conduct, and aims to correct it

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protagonist

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main character in a play

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antagonist

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character or force against which the protagonist struggles

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dialogue

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character's speech

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monologue

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speech of 1 character

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soliloquy

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speech given by a character as if alone even though other character may be on stage

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asides

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which are comments made directly to the audience in the presence of other characters, but without those other characters hearing what is said

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blocking

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positions of actors onstage

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stage business

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nonverbal gestures and movements

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tone

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the implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters