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38 Cards in this Set
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Define Plot?
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The arrangement of the action an imagined event or series of events.
Plot is the sum of the same events that are presented in the story. |
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Define Conflict?
Refer to Luke and earth Vader. |
A struggle between two opposing forces
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Name the 5 titles of classic plot.
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Exposition
Rising action Climax Falling Action Conclusion |
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Define exposition
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Introduces the characters situations and time and place
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Define rising action
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Events that complicate the situation and intensity or complicate the conflict and introduce new ones
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Define Climax
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The plots most dramatic and revealing moment usually the turning point of the story
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Define falling action
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Reversed moment
The part of the plot after the climax when the drama subsides and the conflict is resolved |
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Define Conclusions
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The point at which the situation that was destabilized at the beginning of the story become stable once more.
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Plot order
3 in total |
Chronological
Flashback Media res |
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Define chronological
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Events are order from earliest to latest
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Define flashback
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Science from the past often relived in memory
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Define media res
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" in the middle of things"
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Define setting
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Setting refers to all the circumstances and environment both temporal and spatial
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Spatial settings
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The place of a story, poem, and play
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Temporal settings
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The time of a story, poem, and play
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Define Mood
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The underlying feeling or atmosphere produce by a story
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Define social context
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The significant culture issue affecting a story settings or authorship.
Ex historical events the story occupies |
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Define character
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In short story fiction are not ones which can be easily identified
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Characters in a short story
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The encounter is brief and the predication rather than the person seems to be the focuse and are more apt to extreme situations
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Characters in novel
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We live with the characters for a long period and will develop 'round characters' with relations and social interactions ect.
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Define charcaterization
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Author achieves characterization with variety techniques
Narrative voice Actions Thoughts or dialogue W/ character Thoughts and dialogue w/ other characters |
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Define Narrative voice
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To describe the character
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Define protagonist
Think Luke skywalker |
A story's main character around whom events of the plot revolve
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Define Antagonist
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The character of force in conflict with the protagonist
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Define round character
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A complex fully developed character
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Define flat character
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A one dimensional character
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Name the different conflict with character
There are three |
Man vs Themselves
Man vs others Man vs society or natural forces |
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Define point of view
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The 'narrative point of view' how the story is told, more especially who tells it
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First person point of view
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Using "I"
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Third person point of view
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Occurs when the narrator does not take part in the story and is not the character
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Third person omniscient (all knowing)
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The narrator can render information from anywhere including thoughts and feelings
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Third person limited
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The narrative voice can relate what is in the mind of only a few selected characters
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Third person objective
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Observes detail and does not have access to the internal thoughts of any character
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Second person
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Including the word you
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Define symbol
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A symbol should suggest more than its literal meaning
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Define Image
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And image is a sensory impression use to create meaning in a story
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Define symbol
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A person place thing event or pattern in a literary work that designate itself and at the same time figuratively represents or stands for something else
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Define theme
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Theme is the meaning or concept we are left with after hearing a piece of fiction
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