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41 Cards in this Set
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What happens to, or what is done by, the characters in a story
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Action
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Represents qualities of animals
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Allegory
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Spirit or mood of story
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Atmosphere
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A role in the story
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Character
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Time line or calendar of events in a story.
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Chronology
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Outcome of the main action in the story
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Climax
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Emergence of a problem out of the interaction of characters
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Complication
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Active opposition of characters
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Conflict
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Speech of characters in a story, usually with quotations
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Dialogue
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A story that teaches a lesson
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Didactic
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Choice and arrangement of words
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Diction
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Tells about the characters before a action begins, usually at the beginning of the story
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Exposition
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Hints of things to come
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Foreshadowing
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Figures of speech, such as smiles and metaphors.
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Imagery
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Discrepancy between what is real and what is expected
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Irony
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Internal and external forces that compel a character to take action
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Motivation
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Pity
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Pathos
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Physical and cultural environment withing which action takes place
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Setting
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An act, a person, a thing, or a spectacle that represents something else
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Symbol
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Excessive pride or self confidence, arrogance
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Hubris
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A dramatic composition dealing with a serious somber theme
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Tragedy
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A dramatic form that does not observe the laws of cause and effect
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Melodrama
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Sudden turn of events.
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Peripety
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Critical moment of recognition or discovery
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Anagnorisis
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Tragic Flaw
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Hamartia
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Racial marriage
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Exogamy
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Focus on here and now, rely on present rather then the past to express their ideas
Heredity and environment are operative |
Realist
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Heredity+Environment+Chance=Fate
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Naturalism
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Freedom, choice, Commitment, Responsibility, dread/anxiety
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Existentialism
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Stress the notion of emotion and imagination over reason
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Romanticism
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Othello
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William Shakespeare
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Oedipus Rex
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Sophocles
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Young Goodman Brown
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Paul's Case
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Willa Cather
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The Blue Hotel
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Stephen Crane
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The Man Who was Almost a Man
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Richard Wright
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Sonny's Blues
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James Baldwin
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Barn Burning
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William Faulkner
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Hills Like White Elephants
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Ernest Hemingway
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Babylon Revisited
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
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Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
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