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36 Cards in this Set
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Plot |
Series of things that happened in the story |
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Climax |
Most stressful part problems of the story conflicts come to heed |
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Flash fiction |
Short short story 1000 words or less |
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Irony |
When the actual definition and the expected definition are opposite |
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Traditional story |
Rising action and looming conflict lead to a climax, followed by resolution |
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Flashback |
Telling a story out of chronological order to emphasize specific moments or motifs |
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Cliffhanger |
Story leaves the reader and a moment of suspense, to create a metaphor |
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Twilight Zone |
Ending is intentionally obscure to create a metaphor |
Ending examples |
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Twist ending |
Shocking surprise revealed at the end, allows for Rich rereading |
Ending example |
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Epiphany |
Ending sentence from a sudden emotional realization on the part of the character or the reader |
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Genre |
Grouping of art based on similarities and plot, theme, Motif, execution, Etc |
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Speculative fiction |
Genre, set in your future sci-fi elements most comments on today's society |
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Narrator |
Entity or character telling the story |
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Point of view |
Perspective of narrator relative to the story |
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First person narrator |
Character in the story that tells the story pronouns I me |
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Second person narrator |
Narrator speaks to the audience pronouns you |
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Third person narrator |
Character / entity outside of story is the narrator pronouns he she it Etc |
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Omniscient POV |
POV knows everything |
Point of view |
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Limited POV |
Sees things from one human perspective |
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Unreliable POV |
Narrator is lying / unable to tell the truth evidence and reasoning must exist |
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Frame story |
main narrative is told by a character in a secondary narrative |
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Iceberg story |
90% of important detail is left to the reader to infer |
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Conflict |
Central problem that drives a story |
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Foreshadowing |
Actions or events in the story that predict later action |
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Regional literature |
Literature set in a region, focus on that regions peculiarities and problems |
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Symbolism |
The use of objects or images to signify ideas |
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Allegory |
System of symbols throughout the story, each Place creating a one-to-one correlation |
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Fable |
Story with an explicit moral |
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Fiction |
Any artistic story |
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Experimental fiction |
Fiction with a unique form, that unique form is essential to the meaning of the piece |
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Pastiche |
Seemingly random collection of thoughts and ideas that resists being interpreted as a whole, meaning like narrative, is fragmented |
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Vignettes |
Short scenes, often given together, works like a collage |
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Novella |
Story longer than a short story, shorter than a novel |
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Supporting character |
Characters to exist only to help the narrative or Define the main characters |
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Main character |
Antagonist protagonist |
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Onamonapia |
Words formed from The Sound associated with their meaning |
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