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41 Cards in this Set
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Plot |
Pattern of events in a story; what happens in a story; what you tell when summarizing a story |
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Step 1 of plot structure: Exposition |
Part of the plot that gives background info about the setting, characters, and conflict. |
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Step 2 of plot structure: Inciting Event |
What happens to start the conflict. |
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Step 3 in plot structure: Rising Action |
Events occur that increase the central conflict of the story. |
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Step 4 in plot structure: Climax |
High point of a story where the central conflict reaches a turning point. |
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Step 5 in plot structure: Falling Action |
Results of the climax begin to be seen. |
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Step 6 in plot structure: Resolution/Denouement |
Solution is reached; conflict is resolved. |
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Plot can be ________ or ________. |
Episodic (waves/hills) or equilibrium (mountain) |
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Plot may begin ___________. |
"En media res" (beginning of the action) |
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Conflict |
Disagreement or tension between parties; important for plot |
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Types of conflict are Person vs. _______. |
Person/Society Nature Self Supernatural Technology/Machine |
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Conflict can be either ______ or ______. |
Internal or external |
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Internal conflict |
Struggle within a character's own mind between opposite wants and needs. |
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External conflict |
Struggle between the character and other characters or things. |
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Setting |
Time and place in which the action of the story occurs. |
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Functions of the setting are that it |
Sets the mood, reveals character, and helps create the conflict and make the plot believable. |
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Character |
Participant in the action of the story |
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Protagonist |
Main character |
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Antagonist |
Person/thing in conflict with the main character |
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Characterization |
Way author reveals the character |
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The author can reveal a character by... |
What he/she does Physical description What he/she thinks/says What others say/think about the character Direct evaluation |
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Characters are either _________ or _________. |
Static (unchanging) or dynamic (learn/grow/change throughout the story) |
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Characters are either ____ or ____. |
Flat (one sided) or round (fully developed) |
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Characterization is either ______ or ______. |
Direct or indirect (revealed through observations) |
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Point of view |
Perspective of which the story is told. |
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1st person |
When a story is told by a character using "I, me"; other characters' thoughts and feelings aren't revealed. |
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3rd person omniscient |
All-knowing narrator; author reveals multiple characters' thoughts and feelings. |
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3rd person limited |
When one character's thoughts and feelings are revealed. |
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Tone |
Author's attitude of a story |
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Mood |
How the story makes the reader feel/determined by setting and word choice |
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Irony |
Contrast between what is expecting and what occurs or what is said. |
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Verbal irony |
Sarcasm (saying opposite of what one means) |
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Situational irony |
Opposite of what is expected occurs. |
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Dramatic irony |
Audience knows something the characters don't (creates suspense) |
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Foreshadowing |
Something said/done that hints on what happens later (to be valid, it must come true) |
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Flashback |
When current actions is interrupted by a memory or scene in the past to provide insight or explanation of the plot |
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Flashforward |
Scene from the future interrupts current action |
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Symbol |
Meaning in itself but stands for something more than itself; to be valid, it must be clearly supported, significant, and repeated many times. |
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Allusion |
Reference to HeLPeRS; included in pieces of literature or movies that are not always about that topic. |
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Theme |
Controlling idea or central insight of the story; what the story says about life; truth revealed about the story that applies to all people. |
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Theme must... |
Been written as a complete sentence Be universal/not story specific If directly stated, it is called a "moral" |
