Ap English Vocab 3

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Antagonist

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the character or force that blocks the protagonist in a narrative

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Aside

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private words that a character in a play speaks to the audience or another character and that are not supposed to be overheard by others onstage

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Character

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an individual in a story or play

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Flat character

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represented by the author as being one-sided and unchanging, behaves in
predictable ways, and often represents a single idea or quality

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Round character

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represented by the author as having complexity and depth, having
weaknesses and strengths, and generally having a range of emotions similar to a real person

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Denouement

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the unraveling or outcome of the plot of a play or novel

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Epiphany

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a moment of sudden insight or revelation that a character experiences

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Flashback

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scene that interrupts the present action of the plot to flash backward and tell what happened at an earlier time

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Foreshadowing

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the use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot

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Protagonist

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the main character in the work upon whom our interest centers, usually is the person who makes the plot go forward

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Setting

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the time and place of the story

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Appositive

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a phrase or word that renames a nearby noun: “Herman, the laziest guy in the house, was asleep,” or, “The slob Herman was asleep.”

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Balanced Sentence

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parallel arrangement of words or clauses containing similar or contrasting ideas.
56. The term antithesis refers to a balanced sentence that contains contrasting ideas

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Cumulative Sentence

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begins with an initial independent clause and adds modifying elements at the end

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Ellipsis

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the omission of one or more words whose absence does not impede the reader's ability to understand the expression.

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Inverted Sentence

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a reversal of the normal subject-verb order of a sentence, placing the subject at the end where it receives unusual emphasis

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Periodic Sentence

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begins with modifying clauses and phrases, presenting its central meaning in a main independent clause at the end of the sentence