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34 Cards in this Set
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PLOT
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A series of events put together in a planned order
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Causality
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Cause and Effect (Cause that effects the plot)
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Exposition
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Introductory information which identifies the protagonist, set's the scene
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Protagonist
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Character in Conflict (Main Character)
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Conflict
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a struggle between oppoing forces
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Rising Action
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the plot thickens
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Climax
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moment of greatest tension at which "the outcome is REVEALED"
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Resolution
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Gives solution, explanation, outcome, conflict ends
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Title of work is in Italics or Underlined
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"Big Deal" Title on the outside, cover, or major piece of work
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Title is in quotation marks only
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"Little Deal" title is on the inside of the work, article, poem,etc
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Setting
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The time and place (season, era, literal time, etc)
Place may be (room location, city, country, etc) |
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Complementary Setting
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complements the story's action
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Contradictory Setting
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contradicts the story's action
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Antagonist
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the character on the other side of the conflict (person, nature, self, etc)
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Static Character
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remains the same
(Autistic Brother in Rain Man) |
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Dynamic Character
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character that undergoes some kind of change (not always literal)
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Epiphany
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a moment of sudden insight, in which a truth is grasped or understood
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Compression
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Poetry says more and says it more intensely than does ordinary language
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Denotation
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a word's dictionary definition
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Connotation
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a suggestion, association, emotion attached to a word
(house and home, ex) |
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Point of view
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Narrator, Not Author
who's telling the story/how much he knows |
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1st Person Point of View
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Narrator as participant (major or minor)
I, We ex. Greasy Lake, Araby |
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3rd Person Point of View
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Narrator as observer, outside story (He, She, They)
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Omniscient Point of View
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narrator can see consciences & motives of all main characters
ex. The Storm |
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Limited Point of View
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reader can only see into 1 mind
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OBJECTIVE Point of View
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narrator disappears, acts as observer, reporter, reader must infer meaning
ex. A Rose for Emily |
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Carpe Diem
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Seize the Day, time is the enemy
ex. To the Virgins |
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Syllogism
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3 part argument:
Major Premise (all men are mortal Minor Premise (Socrates was a man) Conclusion (Therefore, Socrates was mortal |
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Hyperbole
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an exaggeration, not meant to be taken literally
ex. "Let us roll all of our strength and all our sweetness up into a ball" from To His Coy Mistress |
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Allusion
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Indirect reference to something else (hint to remember something, history, politics, literature)
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Irony
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exists when thereis a discrepency, incongruity, mismatch
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Verbal Irony
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when their is a mismatch between what is said and what is meant
ex. The lottery |
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Situational Irony
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based on incidents when there is a mismatch between what you'd expect and what happens
ex. the Lottery (setting, chivalry, etc) |
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Ironic Point of View
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based on narrator when there is a mismatch between the narrator and the author: when the narrator tells us something we are to doubt or interpret differently
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