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44 Cards in this Set
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Character |
Someone in the story, can be human or nonhuman |
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Static character |
Nothing changes |
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Dynamic character |
Changes |
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Protagonist |
Main character, not always the good guy, who we watch |
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Anatagonist |
Against the protagonist, not always the bad guy |
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Symbolism |
One thing represents another |
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Theme |
Meaning, main idea, purpose, topic and authors opinion on the topic=theme |
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Flashback |
Look back |
Forrest Gump |
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Mood |
Feelings, atmosphere |
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Narrator |
Person telling the story |
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Point of view (p.o.v) |
The point of view the story is being told |
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1st person |
Actual character in the story |
I, me, we |
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3rd person |
Outside story teller |
They, she, he, it |
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Concrete |
Straight foreword/ clean Real/ exists/ can be touched |
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Abstract |
Can't be touched with 5 senses/ idea |
Time |
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Dialogue |
Conversation |
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Denotation |
Dictionary meaning of a word |
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Setting |
Where, when, culture/ society |
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Connotation |
Feeling of a word |
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Slang |
Informal communication |
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Empathy |
Shared experience |
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Sympathy |
Feel bad for someone |
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Metaphor |
"Is" |
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Simile |
Comparison |
Like or as |
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Irony |
Except one thing but get something else |
The titanic was said to be 100% unsinkable and it sank A pilot being the best in his class who is afraid of heights |
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Verbal irony |
Spoken sarcasm |
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Dramatic irony |
Characters know one thing, readers know something else |
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Sentences |
Noun and subject, needs to make sense |
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Plot |
Problems, actions, events |
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Phrase |
Missing verb or subject |
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Clause |
Subject and a verb |
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Independent clause |
Can stand alone |
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Dependent clause |
Can't stand alone |
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Predicate |
Verb and other stuff |
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Articles |
A, an, the |
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Verbs |
Actions, physical/ mental "to be" |
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Diction |
The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writer |
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Rising action |
Problem/ conflict |
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Internal conflict |
Inside/ internal decision |
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External conflict |
Outside- man vs man, man vs society, or man vs nature |
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Climax |
Turning point, something must happen, dramatic/ drastic |
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Resolution |
How things are resolved |
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Suspense |
Don't know what will happen next edge of the seat moment |
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Foreshadow |
Clue to what will happen |
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