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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Exposition | Begginning situation |
| Rising Action | problems that arise |
| Climax | turning point and/or highest point of intensity |
| Falling Action | resolves most conflicts |
| Denouement | (Day-new-may) working out of final details, resolution |
| Internal/External conflict | Man vs. Self man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. self |
| Direct Characterization | author describes characters by telling |
| Indirect Characterization | author creates character's traits by thoughts/ feelings, actions, appearance, speech(how they speak), reactions of others |
| Antagonist | character or situation trying to stop protagonist from reaching goal |
| Protagonist | main character trying to reach a goal |
| static Character | stays the same |
| Dynamic Character | changes through the story |
| Flat character | don't have much detail or description |
| round Character | lots of detail/ description |
| mood | what the reader feels when reading |
| tone | what the author feels while writing |
| theme | main idea |
| Point of View | author's chioce of narrarator |
| First person | pov of character in the story |
| third person omniscient | knows all thoughts and feelings of all characters, not in story |
| third person objective | knows no thoughts/ feelings of any characters, not in story |
| third person limited | knows ones characters thoughts and feelings, not in story |
| anachronism | something occuring out of its proper time |
| satire | art of making fun of human nature or life in general |
| flashback | a flash into the past to present events that happened before |
| denotation | dictionary definition of a word |
| connotation | symbolic/slang/street definition of a word |
| allegory | a story with a lesson or morale |
| versimilitude | realistic setting resembling the truth |
| allusion | a referance to history or literature |
| incongruity | two ideas that don't logically belong/fit together |
| foreshadowing | hints of whats to come in the future |
| inferance | reader draws conclusion from authors implications |
| Situational Irony | situation that turns out differently than expected |
| Verbal Irony | Saying one thing meaning another(sarcasm) |
| Dramatic Irony | audience/ readers knowss more about situation than the characters do |
| Understatement | event made to seem less important for emphasis |
| symbolism | concrete object represented abstract idea(tangible represents intangible) |
| Stereotype | prefixed ideas about a character, situation or group |
| Style | the way the author uses the language |
| Imagery | descriptive details that paint a picture in the readers mind(five snenses) |
| Simile | comparison using like or as |
| comparison not using like or as, saying one thing is another | metaphor |
| personification | giving human characteristics to inantimate objects |
| alliteration | repitition of sounds at begginning of words |
| assonance | repitition of vowel sounds inside words |
| repitition of consoanances sounds inside words | consonance |
| epiphany | a great understanding(lightbulb) |
| overstatement | exaggeration used for effect(hyperbole) |
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