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27 Cards in this Set
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Plot |
Series of events in a short story |
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Character |
Person in short story |
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Setting |
Time,place, and general conditions of a work |
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Theme |
Main idea of short story |
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External conflict |
Struggle between Character and another character |
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Internal conflict |
Struggle between character and oneself |
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Exposition |
Background info |
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Inciting incident |
First inxicdent of conflict |
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Rising action |
Events the implicate plot |
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Climax |
Highest point of interest |
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Falling action |
Events leading to end of conflict |
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Resolution |
End of conflict |
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Protagonist |
Main character |
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Antagonist |
Opossing protagonist |
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Static character |
Character that stays the same |
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Dynamic character |
Changing character |
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First point of view |
Narrator tells story about oneself |
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3rd objective |
Describes actions but not thoughts or feelings of characters |
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3rd limited |
Told from one characters POV |
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3rd omniscient |
Knows all thought and actions of all characters |
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Gothic literature |
Medieval times, dark tone, isolated setting, supernatural occurances |
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Southern gothic literature |
Relies on super natural, ironic. Or unusual events to guide the plot, something is often falling apart, "grotesque" |
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Four ways a writer devepols a character? |
1. Says, thinks, feels 2. How acts 3. Others say about character 4. Others act towards chracter |
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Situation irony |
When what happens is the opposite of what is expected |
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Verbal irony |
Sarcasm |
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Dramatic irony |
When audience knows something that's the echaractera don't |
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Masque of the red death colors? |
Blue Purple Green Orange White Violet Black |
