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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Setting | The time and location of the action in the story |
| Atmosphere or mood | the prevailing/persistent feeling created in a story |
| Plot | The series of connected action and the events in a story |
| Inciting Force | the event or situation that causes conflict for the main character |
| Rising action | the series of events that complicate and continue the major conflict |
| Climax | the turning point at which the protaginast experience takes a turn for the better or the worse. It is the highest point of emotional intensity, interest or suspence |
| Falling Action | the outcome of the climax |
| Denouement | How the conflict is resolved |
| Conflict | Central problem or struggle of a narrative |
| External conflict | Person VS Person, Person VS Society, Person VS nature/environment, Person VS Circumstance/fate |
| Internal Conflict | Person VS him/her self |
| Charcterization | the techniques used to portray or describe a charcter |
| Protaganist | the leading character |
| Antagonist | the principal character in opposition to the protagonist |
| Narrative point of view (POV) | the narrator keeps the story moving and provides the detailed dialogue from different points of view |
| First Person | A character from the story narrates using the pronoun I |
| Third Person Omniscient | The narrator is outside the story and tells the story through the eyes of all the characters, uses she and he |
| Foreshadowing | A hint is provided about important events that will occur later in the story |
| Imagery | The collected images in a text that evokes the senses through language |
| Verbal Irony | say one thing but mean the opposite |
| structural/situational Irony | you expect something to happen but the exact opposite happens |
| Dramatic Irony | when the audience understands but the characters dont |
| Metaphor | An implied comparison made between two very different things without a direct comparison |
| Personification | giving animals, ideas and other inanimate objects human like charcteristics |
| Satire | When human folly or vice are held up to ridicule or scorn |
| Simile | A direct comparison of two things using "like" or "as" |
| symbol | A word, place, character, or object that means something beyond what it is on a literal level |
| Theme | the perception about life or human nature that the writer expresses in his or her work |
| Hyperbole | The use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device |
| Motif | recurring object, concept or structure. light and dark = good and evil |
| Figurative language | different from literal language does not mean exactly what it says |
| Unreliable narrator | a narrator who tells the story from a biased or erroneous perspective. She/he provides inaccurate, misleading, conflicting infromation |
| Framed Narritive | A story within a story |
| Prose | the ordinary form of spoken and written language whose unit is the sentence, rather than the line as it is in poetry |
| Ballad | A narrative poem, usually containing much repetition and a repeated refrain |
| Ode | Lyric poem of moderate length. Often praises people, the arts, natural scenes, or abstract concepts |
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