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Chapt. 5
Symbol and Figurative Language Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Action | events recounted in a fictional work |
| Plot | The way the author sequences and paces the events so as to shape our response and interpretation |
| Foreshadowing | author gives subtle hints or clues as to what will happen later in the story. |
| Subplot | a plot that receives significantly less time and attention than the main plot |
| Discriminated Occation | author slows down story's action to focus in on a particular moment or scene |
| Conflict | central struggle in a story |
| Exposition | first part of the plot that introduces characters and situations |
| Climax | the moment when the outcome of a plot and the fates of the characters are decided |
| Epiphany | sudden revelation of truth inspired by seemingly trivial events. |
| Tragedy | plot lines that follow the undoing of a character and usually end in death |
| Comedy | plot lines that follow the character to happiness and usually end in happy events such as marriage. |
| Narrator | voice who guides the reader along in a story as if the words were being spoken out loud. |
| Narrator Focus | the visual angle that the narrator takes to tell the story |
| Point of view | voice and focus of the narrator who shows the reader what things to focus on and which characters are favorable and unfavorable |
| Third Person Narrator | external narrator who is not part of the story |
| First Person Narrator | narrator who uses "I" as they tell a story |
| Unreliable Narrator | first person narrator who reveals flaws about the narrator or gives false information about other characters in the story |
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