English Quiz 1

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Narratives based on the imagination of the author, not in literal, reportorial facts; one of the three major genres of imaginative literature

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Fiction

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A characteristic whereby the setting, circumstances, characters, dialogue, actions, and outcomes in a work are designed to seem true, lifelike, real, plausible, and probable, (“like truth”). Donnee: The given action or set of assumptions on which a work of literature is based, such as the unpredictability of love, the bleakness and danger of a postwar world, or the inescapability of guilt.

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Verisimilitude

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The plan or groundwork for a story or a play, with the actions resulting from believable and authentic human responses to a conflict. It is causality, conflict, response, opposition, and interaction that make a plot out of a series of actions.

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Plot

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The natural, manufactured, and cultural environment in which characters live and move, including all their possessions, homes, ways of life, and assumptions.

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Setting

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Public and private places, together with various possessions, and more important in fiction (as in life).

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Types of settings

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A major character in a work of fiction who encounters conflict and is changed by it.

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Round character

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A minor character in a work of fiction who does not undergo substantial change or growth in the course of a story

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Flat character

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a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or...

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Narration

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A compact, concentrated work of narrative fiction that may also contain description, dialogue, and commentary

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Short story

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A complete narrative that may also correspond to a parallel set of moral, philosophical, political, religious, or social situations.

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Allegory

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A story that deals with the relationships of gods to humanity or with battles among heroes in time past. It may also be a set of beliefs or assumptions among societies.

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Myth

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A major aspect of literary tone, a means of indirection, based on the proposition that even the simplest events in human life may be seen in multiple ways. Irony therefore deals with contradictions and ambiguities—the shadows underlying human existence. It is conveyed through indirection both in situations and in language.

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Irony

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Verbal, dramatic, cosmic, and situational

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Types of irony

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Developed theory for modern short story

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Poe

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Major/central, minor, dynamic, static, round, flat, stock, protagonist, antagonist, anit-hero, foil, or symbolic

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Types of characters

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Word choice, types of words, and the level of language

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Diction

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Formal (high), neutral (middle), and informal (low).

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Types of diction

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The speaker, voice, narrator, or persona of a work; the position from which details are perceived and related, a centralizing mind or intelligence; not to be confused with opinion or belief.

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Point of view

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First person (“I”), second person, or third person.

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Types of point of view

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A specific word, idea or object that may stand for ideas, values, persons, or ways of life.

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Symbol

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Archetypal, conventional, and personal

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Types of symbolism

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A brief story illustrating a moral truth, most often associated with the ancient Greek writer Aesop.

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Fable

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A short allegory designed to illustrate religious truth, often associated with Jesus as recorded in the Gospels, primarily Luke.

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Parable

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The high point of conflict and tension preceding the resolution or denoument of a story or play; the point of decision, of inevitibility and no return.

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Climax

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A stage of narrative and dramatic structure in which the major conflicts are brought out; the rising action of a drama.

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Complication

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The final stage of plot development, in which, mysteries are explained, characters find their destinies, lovers are united, sanity is restored, and the work is completed.

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Resolution

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The arrangement and placement of materials in a work.

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Structure

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The major or central idea of a work. An essay, a short composition developing an interpretation or advancing an argument. The main point or idea that that a writer of an essay asserts or illustrates.

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Theme

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The manipulation of language; the placement of materials in a work.

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Style

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The opposition between two characters, between large groups of people, or between larger groups of protagonists.

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Conflict

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The point of uncertainty and tension in a literary work--the turning point--that results from the conflicts and difficulties brought about through the complications of plot.

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Crisis

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Same as resolution...

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Denouement

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The central character and focus of interest in a narrative or drama.

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Protagonist

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Same as point of view.

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Voice

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A character who tries to assert control by recognition, adjustment, and change.

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Dynamic character

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A character who undergoes no change, a flat character contrasted with a dynamic character.

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Statistic character

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The techniques and modes of presentation that reveal or create attitudes.

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Tone

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The stage of dramatic or narrative structure that introduces all things necessary for the development of the plot.

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Exposition