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English- Literature
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| fiction | A story about people and events that are NOT real. (FAKE) |
| non-fiction | real people/events- not fake |
| setting | Where and when the story take place. |
| mood | The overall feeling that "a work" creates IN THE READER. |
| tone | The overall feeling/attitude of the the writer or the characters in a work. (Most of the time mood and tone are about the same, but sometimes they go in opposite directions.) |
| narrator | The person telling the story. |
| internal | A character IN THE STORY who also tells the story. (1st person, unreliable) |
| external | Someone “outside”/ not in the story, telling the story. (3rd person, reliable) |
| characters | people, animals, other beings who take part in the plot |
| protagonist | The character that the reader wants to succeed.- Goes through a major CHANGE (usually). The most sympathetic. |
| antagonist | The character who is in conflict w/ the protagonist. (nature, society, part of the protagonist) |
| dynamic | goes through a major change (usually the protag.) |
| static | no change (usually antag.) |
| flat | A character that we don’t know much about.- MOTIVATION |
| round | Characters that the reader knows well.- MOTIVATION |
| motivation | what drives a character to do what they do; to act in a certain way |
| internal | A force from within the character that drives him or her to act. |
| external | An outside force that drives the character to act. |
| conflict | The problem/struggle experienced by the protag. |
| internal | (Character vs. self)- struggle within the protag. |
| external | (Character vs. Character, nature, society….)- struggle with an outside character or force |
| subject | What the story is REALLY about. |
| theme | What the reader is supposed to learn (life lesson) ABOUT THE SUBJECT. |