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Unit 1 Literary Term
English
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Short story | a brief work of fiction intended to be read in a single setting |
| Characters | people or the animals who take part in the action |
| Characterization | a writer uses what the character does or says to reveal personality |
| Traits | a character's qualities, attitudes and values |
| Motives | the reasons for a character's actions |
| Setting | the time and place for the story's action |
| Mood | the story's atmosphere |
| Plot | a sequence of events in the story |
| Conflict | struggle between opposing forces in the story |
| Internal conflict | takes place in the mind of a character (maybe opposing feelings) |
| External conflict | takes place between a character and an outside force, such as nature |
| Theme | the message of the story or an insight about life |
| Plot structure | the way in which story events are organized for dramatic effect |
| Exposition | introduces the characters and their situation |
| Inciting event | often included in the exposition, reveals the central conflict of a story |
| Rising action | leading to climax, develops the conflict |
| Climax | the point of greatest intensity in a story , the turning point where its outcome is determined |
| Falling action | sets up the story's ending |
| Resolution | shows how the conflict is settled |
| Point of view | the perspective from which the story is told |
| First-person POV | presents the story from perspective of a character - uses pronouns I, me, my |
| Third-person POV | tells story from the perspective of a narrator outside the story |
| Omniscient third-person | narrator knows everything, reveals what each character thinks/fells |
| Limited third-person | narrator reveals the thoughts and feelings of a single character |
| Chronological order | show the chain of events in story as it unfolds in time order |
| Flasback | shows events from before the present of the story, to reveal character's motives |
| Dialogue | presentation of character's words as uttered, can also move the action along |
| Direct characterization | the narrator makes direct statement about a character's personality |
| Indirect characterization | writer shows what characters are like by providing details about what the characters say and do, what other characters say about them, and how characters respond to them |
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