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25 Cards in this Set
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Setting: |
Time, place, and physical characteristics of a story takes place (location). |
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Antagonist: |
Force or character working against the main character. |
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Character: |
Person, animal or creature in literary work |
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Protagonist: |
Main character, maybe a hero or heroine; with whom the audience tends identify |
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Foreshadowing: |
Hints to the reader as to what is may happen later in text. |
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Flashback: |
When the chacater(s) remembers back in his/her past about an event |
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Imagery: |
Description language appealing to the sense |
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Mood: |
A feeling that a literary work conveys to the readers |
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Word choice: |
A lauguage used by the author for specific effect |
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static character: |
A character that does not change over a story |
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Dynamic character: |
A character that changes over the course a story |
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Point of view:(POV) |
The view from which the story is being told.( first person vs third person) |
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Conflict: |
A struggle between two opposing forces |
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Theme: |
Overall subject matter of text. |
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Stanza: |
Verse; lines grouped together to create rhyme, rhyme and/or mood |
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Theme: |
Overall subject matter of text |
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Imagery: |
Words that create a picture in your head |
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Repetition: |
Repeated words in text |
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Rhyme: |
Words that sound the same when read aloud |
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Exposition: |
Or introduction tells us who the characters are and usually what their conflict is. |
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Rising action: |
the part of the story where the character find conflicts and challenges. |
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inciting incident: |
the part of the rising action that forces the character to take action |
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climax: |
the most exciting and important part of the story |
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the falling action |
events that happen after the climax |
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resolution |
when the conflict is solved and the story is brought to an end |
