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36 Cards in this Set
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The animal/people in a story.
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Characters
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The main character of a story.
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Protagonist
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The person or force in society or nature that opposes the protagonist in a story.
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Antagonist
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The place where story takes place.
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Setting
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Foil/flat character
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Characters that go in and out of the story usually reveal one personality trrait.
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The combination of experiences, values and ideas that shapes the way the author looks at the world or a particular subject.
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Author's perspective
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The author's intent for writing: to persuade, inform, entertain, explain or describe.
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Author's purpose
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The central struggle between opposing forces in a story.
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Conflict
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An external struggle against nature.
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Man vs nature
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An external struggle against society.
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Man vs society
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An external struggle against man.
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Man vs man
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An internal struggle against self/mind.
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Man vs self
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A prose narrative in which situations and characters are invented by the writer. Some works may be based on facts and experiences.
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Fiction
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An interruption in a story/narrative that tells about something that happened before the story began or in that point in the story where the interruption occurs.
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Flashback
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The author's use of clues to prepare readers for events that will happen later in the story.
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Foreshadowing
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A type of literature: prose, poetry and drama.
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Genre
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The most important idea expressed in a paragraph or an essay.
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Main idea
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The emotional quality or atmosphere of a story.
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Mood
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Writing about real people, places, and events.
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Nonfiction
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The sequence of events in story. The plot usually develops in 5 stages.
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Plot
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The sequence of events in a story. There are 5 stages.
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Plot
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Introduces the story's conflict, characters and setting.
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Exposition
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The part in the story where suspense builds and adds complications to the conflict.
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Rising action
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The point in the story where the highest emotional pitch occurs, also called the turning point.
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Climax
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The logical result of the climax. Where the problem is solved.
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Falling action
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The final outcome of a story.
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Denouement or resolution
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The standpoint from which a story is told. All stories are told by a narrator.
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Point of view
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The narrator is a character in the story, referred to as I. The reader sees everything through that character's eyes.
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First-person point of view
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The narrator stands outside the story and describes the characters and action. The narrator refers to the characters as he and she.
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Third-person point of view
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The narrator is all-knowing, he knows everything about all the characters and events.
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Third-person omniscient
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The particular way an author writes.
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Style
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The retelling of the main events or ideas of a story.
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Summary
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Any object, person, place, or experience that means more than what it is.
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Symbolism
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The central message of a work of literature.
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Theme
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The name of a story.
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Title
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An author's attitude toward his or her subject matter.
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Tone
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