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23 Cards in this Set
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Main Character
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take part in the main events of a story
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Minor Character
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Interact with main characters and help move the story along.
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Round Characters
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"Dynamic". Changes throughout the story.
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Flat Characters
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"Static" Doesn't change throughout the story.
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Climax
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Turning point of the story, highest point of suspense.
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Internal Characterization.
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Describing characters based on their appearance.
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External Characterization
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Describing a character based on physical appearance.
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Flashback
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Recalling events that happened before the story started.
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Rising Action
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Intro to complications, builds the suspense.
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Falling Action
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Occurs after the climax, ties together loose ends.
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Setting
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Time and Place in which events occur.
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Theme
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Preciption about life or human nature that the writer conveys to the reader.
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Idiom
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A type of figurtive language where the expression doesn't mean the literal dictionary meaning.
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protagonist
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the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
"The good guy" |
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Antagonist
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a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with the protagonist.
"The bad guy" |
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Autobiography
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A story of a person's life written or told by that person.
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Autobiographical Fiction
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A story about something that has happened to you but adding fiction in it.
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Colloquial expression
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Slang or expressions said regionally.
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Irony
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The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning.
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Simile
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A figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared.
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Metaphor
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A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally alike in order to suggest a resemblance
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Hyperbole
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An extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally.
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Internal conflict
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Struggle within the mind of a character.
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