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Question | Answer |
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antagonist | a character or force working against the protagonist. |
Catalyst | event along the rising action the rising action that pushes, energizes the story...event that activates the rising action. |
Character | A person, animal, oblect, or force that takes part in the action of a literary work. the main or major character is the most important and central to the action. A minor or supporting character/one who takes part in action but is not focus of attention |
Characterization | The method an author uses to create and develop the characters and their various personalities through action, word/statments, thoughts, and opinions. (ATWO) |
Direct Characterization | A writer states the characters' traits, actions, motives, or feelings. |
indirect Characterizations | A writer denpends on the reader to draw conclusions about the character's traits or uses other participants in the story to reveal a character's trait's and motive's. |
Climax | The point of highest intesity/tension in a work at which the outcomes of the action is in three questions; the triumph (NOTE: Three parts) |
Character traits | A quality that a character shows by action statement, or thought |
Conflict | Struggle between opposing forses (protagonist and antagonist) Conflicts may be internal ( person vs. self) or externl (Person vs. Person , society, technology, nature, fate/destiny, unknown; good vs. evil) |
exposition | The beginnning of a work that may reveal character, setting, mood/tone, and or basic situation. |
Falling action | A part of the story following the climax/turning point that leads to the resloution of the story. |
inciting forse | Event/situation that triggers the conflict/rising action. |
Plot | The sequence of events in a story |
Protagonist | Main character or hero to whom the problem is solved after the climax. |
resolution/denouement | The portion of the play or story in which the problem is solved after the climax |
Rising action | All the details of time and place of the action in a literary work; the total orment. In most stories, the setting serves as a back drop or contextin which the characters interact and the plot progresses. |
BLLOTT | Backround, Location, Life Style,Occupation, Time, Tradition |
Short Story | a tight work of fiction with one main setting, limited characters, and one problem |
Theme | The central and universal statement about the human condition in a litarary work that they may be stated directly or indirectly |