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21 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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Protagonist
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main character
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main
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antagonist
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anything that opposes the protagonist or trie to prevent the protagonist from reaching his/hers goals
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opposes
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Conflict
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Protagonist Problem
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Climax
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highest point of the story, most intense, no major events happen after the climax
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highest point
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Flashback
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an interuption in the story, a brief viewing into the past, gives backround information.
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past info
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Foreshadowing
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hints and clues that allow you to predict future events.
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clues, future
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Mood
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the emotion that the reader feels when he is reading the story
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feeling
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Setting
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time and place
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Symbolism
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objects that represent ideas, thoughts, and concepts
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Theme
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the author's message in the story
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Tone
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the authors attitude towards the theme
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resolution
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the outcome of the conflict
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Inciting Incident
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The events the begin the rising action, starts the conflict
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Rising Action
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All actions that lead up to the climax
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Falling Action
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All events that take place after the climax
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Genre
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Type of Literature
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Plot
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Outline/ Plan of events in the story
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Characterization
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ways that the author develops his characters
-physical appereance -interactions with others -speech/actions -other characters opinion of them |
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Irony
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-Situational, unexpected twist
-Verbal, saying the opposite of what you mean -Dramatic, the audience knows something that a character doesn't |
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Point of View
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the author determines who is going totell the story
1st person- narrator is in the story, I 3rd person objective- narrator is out of story, but reports what he sees and hears 3rd person limited- narrator is out of the story, reports what he sees, hears, and the thoughts of one character 3rd omniscient - narrator is out of the story, reports what he sees and hears and the thoughts of more than one character |
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Exposition
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the beginning of the story, author introduces the settin, the protagonist, the conflict
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