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9th english
finals for english
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| fiction | writing about imained events or characters |
| nonfiction | writing about real events |
| genre | indicates the literary form of type into which works are classified according to what they have in common either in formal structures or in their treatment of subject matter or both |
| historical fiction | story based upon an historical even but has nonfiction characters |
| characterization | developement of personalities |
| protagonist | main character |
| antagonist | characer who is against the protagonist |
| static character | one who does not change during the course of the story |
| dynamic character | one who does change during the course of the story |
| stock character | one found again and again in different literary works |
| plot | the sequence of events in a story |
| 1st stage exposition | introduction sets the mood intro of characters and setting |
| 2nd stage inciting incident | the event that introduces the central conflict |
| 3rd stage rising action | develops the conflict |
| conflict | man vs self, man vs man, man vs society, man vs nature, man vs fate |
| 4th stage climax | when the character takes action against conflict |
| 5th stage falling action | all events that follow the climax |
| 6th stage resoultion | point at which central conflict has ended |
| 7th stage denouement | any material that follows the resoultion and ties up the loose ends |
| ritual | standard meaning to a common experience ritualized patterns |
| rites of passage | seperation from everyday life, initiation/transformation, return |
| symbolism | using objets or images to represent abstract ideas |
| metaohor | a figure or speach which involves n implied comparison between two relatively unlike things using a form of be |
| allusion | reference in one literary work to a character theme setting or event to found in another literary work |
| irony | a difference between appearance and reality |