Final

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first person narrative

Back 1

protagonist telling his own story directly to the reader. This POV tells us what the main character feels from a vantage point inside the story.

Front 2

limited omniscient narrative

Back 2

the story is told by an outside narrator who is restricted to revealing observations, thoughts, and feelings of only one of the characters.

Front 3

omnicsient narrative

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reveals the thoughts or feelings of one or all the characters, telling from a god like perspective outside of the story.

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objective point of view

Back 4

writer tells a story with the objectivity of a video camera

Front 5

round character

Back 5

realistic character having several sides to his character

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flat character

Back 6

limited character, usually minor who has only one apparant quality

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static character

Back 7

character who seems incapaple of change like frankenstein

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dynamic character

Back 8

character who develops over the course of the story

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foil character

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one who is in most ways opposite to the main character or nearly the same the point is to emphasize traits of the main character

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theme

Back 10

central or underlying idea in literature usually implied rather than directly stated

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tone

Back 11

authors attitude towards both the characters and events of a story

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verbal irony

Back 12

form of irony in which the implicit meanign of a speaker differs from the stated meaning

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dramatic irony

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occurs when the author shares with the reader information now known by the character. There is a difference between what the reader knows to be true and what a character believes to be true

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situational irony

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occurs when a set of circumstances turns out differently from waht is expected or considered appropriate

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foreshadowing

Back 15

a device used by an author to give the reader a hint as to waht may happen later in the story

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flashback

Back 16

narrative device designed to give the reader an awareness of an incident that took place prior to the opening scene in the story

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flashforward

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device in the narrative of a motion picture by which a future event or sene is interted into the chronological structure of the work

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suspense

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quality of the sotry which makes th reader ask what is going to happen next?

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symbolism

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method in which characters, objects, events, and setting can be symbolic

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alliteration

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repitition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

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onomatopoeia

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words that imitate sounds

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puns

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words with a humourous double meaning

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idioms

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experssions that have a meaning apart from the meanings of the individual words ex. its raining cats and dogs

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foot

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the ime period into which the neat of the poetic line is divided

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meter

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referts to how the feet are put together

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rhthym

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pattern of long and shory syllables in a poetic line

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assonance

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repetition of vowel sounds wihting a short passage of verse or prose