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29 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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What is a plot?
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The main events
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What is a character?
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the protagonist
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What is the setting?
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Description of the surroundings
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What is the point of view?
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The narrator or character's thinking is curious, contradictory
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What is the theme of a story?
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human nature
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atmosphere
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mood or feeling conveyed by the author’s choice of language
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complication (of plot)
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the introduction and development of a conflict between characters or characters and a situation.
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chronological/linear plot flow
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telling a story in order of events as they take place in time
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conflict
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some form of opposition presented to the main character
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crises
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turning point in a narrative as it moves close to the story’s climax
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distance
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an author’s or narrator’s spatial, temporal, or emotional removal from plot events
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flashback
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breaks up chronological flow of plot events to tell what happened at some past time
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foreshadowing
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introduction of specific words or images that anticipate later events
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frame story
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story within a story, the “outer” story implying an important theme within the “inner” story
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irony
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reader’s awareness that reality differs from that of the character’s perspective
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metaphor
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an image used to make concrete an abstract idea--doesn't use like or similar to Ex: My love is a Grand Canyon of longing.
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motivation:
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eternal and internal forces that cause characters to perform specific acts
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narrator
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*omniscient: knows all thoughts of characters, and events
*limited omniscient: knows the thoughts and feelings of certain characters *first-person: uses “I” to tell the story, and may be a character *unreliable: narrator who lies or misrepresents reality on purpose |
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pace
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rate at which the action progresses
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pathos
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quality of a work that evokes pity. Too much=sentimentality
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protagonist
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main character of a story
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resolution
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the “falling action” of a story in which the conflict has been settled
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reversal
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any turnabout in the fortunes of a character
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simile
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an image used to make concrete an abstract idea. Uses words such as “like” or “similar to.” Ex: My love is like a Grand Canyon of longing. (compare with metaphor)
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subplot:
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a minor plot that somehow affects and interacts with the main plot
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symbol
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a person, event, place, etc., that represents, by association, some other idea (often abstract).
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unity
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the relation of all the story’s parts to one central organizing principle that forms an organic whole
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types of tales
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*morality
*psychological *coming-of-age *quest *revenge *fall from innocence |
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verisimilitude
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use of certain lifelike details to give the semblance of reality
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