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vocab words
Question | Answer |
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conflict | describes the tension or struggle between 2 opposing forces in a work of literature |
internal conflict | a person’s struggle within him or herself |
external conflict | a person struggling with an outside force |
direct characterization | the author tells us exactly what to think or know about the character |
indirect characterization | the author gives clues about the character through their speech, dress, actions, thoughts, and what other characters say about them. |
protagonist | the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel or other fictional text: |
antagonist | a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary |
foil | a character who serves to highlight the main character by having opposite traits; they point out the strengths or weaknesses of the protagonist and are often called a sidekick |
round character | a fully developed character with main traits |
flat character | an underdeveloped character with |
dynamic character | a character who grows and changes throughout the story |
static character | a character who does not change in the story |
simile | compares 2 essentially unlike things using the words like or as |
metaphor | compares two physically different things without using like or as |
point of view | the perspective from which a narrative is told. It can also refer to the bias of the person or thing through whose eyes the reader experiences the action. |
first person point of view | can be easily recognized because the narrator uses first person pronouns such as “I, me, my, we, us,” and “our” |
third person point of view | indicated by the use of third person pronouns such as “he, she, they, them” It can have different types of narrators. |
omniscient narrator | The narrator knows what all the characters are thinking and relates those thoughts to the reader. |
limited narrator | The narrator knows what only some (usually 1 or 2) characters are thinking and relates those thoughts to the reader. |
objective narrator | The narrator relates only what the characters do and say and does not reveal the thoughts of any of the characters. |
simple sentence | one independent clause |
compound sentence | two or more independent clauses |
complex sentence | one independent clause + one or more dependent clauses |