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English cards
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Plot | a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose |
| Foreshadowing | Be a warning or indication of (a future event). |
| flashback | A scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story. |
| Conflict | serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one |
| Character | The mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual. |
| Protagonist | The leading character or a major character in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text. |
| Antagonist | A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something |
| Round Character | a character in fiction whose personality, background, motives, and other features are fully delineated by the author. |
| Flat Character | an easily recognized character type in fiction who may not be fully delineated but is useful in carrying out some narrative purpose of the author |
| Dynamic Character | a literary or dramatic character who undergoes an important inner change, as a change in personality or attitude: Ebeneezer Scrooge is a dynamic character. |
| Characterization | the act of characterizing; especially |
| Motivation | The act of describing something you need or desire |
| Mood | a conscious state of mind or predominant emotion |
| Point of view | a position or perspective from which something is considered or evaluated |
| narrator | to tell (as a story) in detail |
| imagery | figurative language visual representation of something |
| Metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them |
| Simile | comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as |
| symbol | an object or act representing something in the unconscious mind that has been repressed |
| Tone | the writer's attitude toward the material and/or readers. Tone may be playful, formal, intimate, angry, serious, ironic, outraged, baffled, tender, serene, depressed, etc. |
| Style | manner of expression; how a speaker or writer says what he says |
| Diction | The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing. |
| Fiction | prose narrative based on imagination, usually the novel or the short story. |
| Nonfiction | Prose writing based on facts, such as biography or history. |
| Prose | Written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure. |
| Theme | the abstract concept explored in a literary work; |
| Irony | the discrepancy between what is said and what is meant, what is said and what is done, what is expected or intended and what happens, what is meant or said and what others understand. |
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