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41 Cards in this Set
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setting
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time, place, moral environment
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mood
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emotional atmosphere, physical setting
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theme
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central idea
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motif
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unifying symbol or idea throughout the piece
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symbol
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represents an idea or can symbolize a character
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plot
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sequence of events
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exposition
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introduces characters and setting
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rising action
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introduction to conflicy and build up to conflict
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climax
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confilct at its highest point
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falling action
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helps to find resolution
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resolution/conclusion/
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change
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point of view
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how the story is being told
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1st person point of view
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a character in the story is telling the story
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3rd person limited point of view
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seeing the story through one character's eys
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3rd person omniscent point of view
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"all knowing" the narrator tells anything any character feels or thinks
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conflict
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opposition
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man vs. himself
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an internal conflict against yourself and how you feel
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man vs. man
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conflict between two characters
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man vs. society
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one view vs. the rest of the people's views, trying to prove the one view correct
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man vs. nature
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the man is struggling for survival against the forces of nature
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man vs. supernatural
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man vs. a force that is not real
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internal conflict
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conflict in yourself
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external conflict
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conflict against another person/force
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character
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a person in the story
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major character
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one who appears throughout the story
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protagonist
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main character
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antagonist
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the character that opposes the protagonist
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secondary character
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has a role in the outcome of the story
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dynamic character
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one who grows and develops through the story, who is different in the end from the beginning
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static character
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one that stays the smae throughout the story and does not change
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dialect
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the way the story is written and told
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fiction
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did not happen, made up
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non-fiction
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historic or real material
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social criticism
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critizing an idea in society
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bildungsroman
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german play, protagonist is dynamic
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picaresque
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episodic play, main character is always on the edge
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inference
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the meaning of the book you take away
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irony
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unexpected twist
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satire
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critism with humor in mind, with an intent to make a change
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paradox
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situation is contradictory
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intrusive narrator
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the author adding in hints of what is to come that the characters in the novel do not know
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