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ECA TERMS Fiction
This is the running list of terms on the ECA with specific focus on fiction.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| plot | the events within a story |
| setting | the time and place where a story takes place |
| conflict | the problem that must be solved |
| internal conflict | a problem that is within a character, particularly their own mind--decisions they will have to make, etc. |
| external conflict | a problem that is between characters, between a character and the external world, or the physical problem that a character must go through |
| rising action | the increase in tension as conflict(s) become more complicated |
| climax | the point at which the conflict is taken head on |
| falling action | the results of the climax |
| resolution | the state of the world at the end of a story |
| character | a persona within a literary work usually evidenced by what they say and do, and what other characters say about them |
| static character | a character that remains unchanged within a story |
| dynamic character | a character who experiences change as a result of the events within a story |
| dialogue | the conversations between characters |
| imagery | use of words by the author to appeal to the five senses |
| irony | the literary device in which there is discrepancy between what is expected versus what happens, what is said versus what is meant, or what is known by the audience versus what is known by the characters within the story |
| verbal irony | when what is said is the opposite of what is meant |
| situational irony | when what happens is the opposite of what is expected to happen |
| dramatic irony | when the audience knows something that the characters in the story do not |
| similes | comparisons of unlike things using "like" or "as" |
| metaphors | comparisons of unlike things |
| personification | to give human characteristics to nonhuman things and ideas |
| hyperbole | an overstatement, usually for comedic effect |
| understatement | an understatement for comedic effect. Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail: the black knight with his arm chopped off..."mere scratch" |
| foreshadowing | Events or dialogue within a story that portend how the story will end |
| theme | the underlying moral, lesson, or statement about life that a story teaches. This requires a "step back" from the text. |
| tone | the attitude with which a speaker speaks |
| diction | the words chosen by the author to affect the audience |
| point of view | the point of view from which a story is told. First person: "I" "we" "us" Third person participant: "he" "they" "it" Third person omniscient: same as 3rd person except the narrator describes the thoughts of the participants |
| alliteration | the repetition of a consonant sound in a line of poetry or in prose. Headmaster Huntington Hadley was the hockey coach. |
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