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evocab
| vocab | definition |
|---|---|
| plot | a series of related events which present and resolve a conflict |
| conflict | the struggle or problem |
| internal conflict | the problem or struggle is within the character himself |
| external conflict | conflict that pits character against character, character against nature, or character against the forces of society |
| exposition | first par of the plor structure that introduces character, setting, point of view, and basic situation. It establishes the mood by setting tone |
| complications | part of the plot structure in which the protagonist takes some action to resolve the conflict and meets with some problem such as danger, indecision, or hostility |
| climax | the key scene, the tense moment when the reader is most involved; the point at which all of the conflict must be resolved |
| resolution | the way in which the conflict is resolved--the part of the story in which all the struggles are over |
| suspense | the condition of not knowing what will happen next |
| foreshadowing | hints given by the author about what will occur later; often used to build suspense |
| setting | teels the reader where and when the story takes place; can include the locale, the weather, the time of day and the time period; oftern inferred. |
| protagonist | the leading character of a short story, play, or nove |
| antagonist | the adversary that opposes the protagonist; may be another character, the forces of nature, fate, or change |
| point of view | the vantage point from which the writer had chosen to tell the story. |
| first person | one of the characters is telling the story; may be a participant or an observer; uses personal pronouns (I, we, us etc.) |
| third person limited | the narrator is not a character in the story; this story teller focuses on only one character's thoughts and actions |
| third person omniscient | the narrator is not a character in the story, but knows all about the characters and their problems, their thoughts, and sometimes the past and future |
| viewpoint | the narrator's persona, his perspective |
| mood | the atmosphere or feeling or emotional aura that the writer creat; it may |
| characterization | methods used by a writer to reveal the nautre or personality of a character. |
| direct characterization | the writer tells us directly what kind of person the character is |
| indirect characterization | the reader has to take the evidence given about the character and use his own judgment to decide what the cahracter is like |
| figurative language | figurative means "not literal," so figurative language is language that is not meant to be taken literally. |
| imagery | the sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions. on the physical level, imagery uses terms related to the five senses |
| verbal irony | a writer or speaker says one thing but really means something completely differnet; sarcasm is a form of verbal irony |
| dramatic irony | the reader or audience knows something that the character does not know |
| situational irony | what is expected to take place is the opposite of what actually happens |
| inference | a reasonable and intelligent conclusion about the behavior of a character or the meaning of an event drawn from limited details or hints supplied by the author |
| sensory details | details of sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch; referred to as imagery |
| colloquialism | the use of slang or informalities in speech or writing; not generally acceptable for formal writing |
| plot summary | states the main points in a brief form; always includes the title and author of the literary selection, and events are stated in the order in which they occurred |
| idiom | an expression that has a meaning different from the meaning of its individual words; an expression that cannot be translated literally |
| theme | the underlying, implied or stated truth about life or human nautre that a piece of literature reveals--must be expressed as a statement or sentence |
| motif | a recurring theme, idea, work, phrase, or subject in a literary work |
| symbol | something concrete, a person, place, object, or event that has meaning in itself, but stands for something beyond itself as well |
| epiphany | an inituitive grasp of reality achieved in a quick flash of recognition in which something usually simple and commonplace is seen in a new light; this sudden insight is the epiphany |
| rite of passage | an even that siganls a change from one stage of life to another |
| historical fiction | fiction whose setting is in some time other than that in which it is written |
| flashback | a device by which a work presents material that occurred prior to the opening scene |
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