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29 Cards in this Set
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1. Antagonist
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A character or group of characters who represent the opposition against the protagonist.
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2. Round character
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A character in fiction whose personality, background, motives, and other features are fully delineated by the author.
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3. Characterization
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- A. A portrayal or description B. A description or creation of convincing representation of fictional characters.
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4. Flat character
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Minor characters that of which are barely developed or maybe stereotyped.
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5. Climax
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A turning point of the action of a plot, drama, or work of fiction; often marks the protagonist taking an action or making a decision to resolve the conflict of work.
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6. Complication
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A. The Act of complicating something.
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7. Conflict
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A fight, battle, struggle, or strife
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8. Dramatic Irony
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When there is a discrepancy between what a character knows and what the audience knows.
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9. Falling action
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A series of events which take place after the climax.
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10. Fiction
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A literary work whose content is produced by the imagination and is not necessarily based on fact.
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11. First Person
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A point of view in which I or we serves as the narrator of a piece of fiction.
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12. Flashback
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An interruption of a works chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main timeframe of the story.
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13. Foreshadowing
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The use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in literature.
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14. Irony
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Is what happens as opposed to what was expected.
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15. Limited Omniscient Narrator
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A narrator who can report external actions and conversations of many characters but can only relate the internal thoughts of one character. Speaks in third person.
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16. Omniscient Narrator
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A narrator who knows everything and can report on the thoughts and actions of all characters.
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17. Parody
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A humorous mockery or imitation of a literary work, sometimes sarcastic but often respectful in its playful imitation.
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18. Plot
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The way in which narrative events are arranged.
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19. Point of view
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– A specified or stated manner of consideration or appraisal; standpoint.
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20. Protagonist
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– The main character of a literary work. Most of the time, the hero or the good guy/girl.
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21. Resolution
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Sorting out or unraveling a plot at the end of a play or story.
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22. Rising Action
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The events of a dramatic or narrative plot that precedes the climax.
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23. Satire/Satiric Humor
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A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidity’s and follies.
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24. Setting
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Determines a time and place in fiction.
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25. Style
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those components or features of a literary composition that have to do with a form of expression, rather than the thoughts expressed.
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26. Subplot
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A plot subordinate to the main plot of a literary work.
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27. Symbol
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An object, action, character, setting, animal or other element in a literary work that stands for something more than its literal meaning.
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28. Theme
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The general idea or insight that a writer wishes to express.
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29. Tone
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The writer’s attitude towards the character in a literary work.
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