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Humanities 205
Ch 11, Ch 12, Ch 13, Ch 14
Question | Answer |
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Way in which the events of the story are arranged. | Plot |
Four stages of Plot. | Exposition, Complications, Climax, Resolution |
First stage of a plot, where the author presents the information about characters or setting that a reader will need to understand the subsequent action. | Exposition |
The peak in the story's action, a moment of considerable tension or importance. | Crisis |
The point of greatest tension or importance, the scene that presents a story's decisive action or event. | Climax |
The final stage in the plot. The action comes to an end and remaining loose ends are tied up. | Resolution |
In the midst of things | in medias res |
Variation on chronological order that presents an event or situation that occurred before the time in which the story's action takes place. | Flashback |
Presentation early in a story of situations, characters, or objects that seem to have no special importance but are later revealed to have great significance. | Foreshadowing |
A fictional representation of a person, usually but not necessarily in a psychologically realistic way. | Character |
Well-developed character, closely involved in the action and responsive to it. | Round character |
Static, stereotypical character | Flat character |
A supporting character whose role in the story is to highlight a major character by presenting a contrast with him or her. | Foil |
Easily identifiable types who behave so predictably that readers can readily recognize them. | Stock characters |
A character who grows and changes in the course of a story, developing as he or she reacts to events and to other characters. | Dynamic character (comes from Greek word meaning power) |
Character that remains the same, essentially unchanged. | Static character (comes from Greek work meaning to stand) |
Stock character with a single dominant trait, such as miserliness, or a single physical trait, like nearsightedness. | Cariacture |
Reasons behind a character's behavior. | Motivation |
Background against which the action of a work takes place: the historical time, locale, season, time of day, weather, etc. | Setting |
Types of setting. | Historical, Geographical, and Physical |
The vantage point from which a story is told. | Point of view |
Person who tells the story | Narrator |
Types of narrators. | First-person (I, we) or third-person (he, she, they). |
Three types of third-person narrators | Omniscient, limited omniscient, or objective |
Person telling the story from an all knowing point of view. | Omniscient narrator |
Person telling the story from one point of view. | Limited omniscient |
Person telling the story remains outside the character's minds, it doesn't reveal character's own thoughts or attitudes. | Objective narrator |
Types of irony. | Dramatic or tragic, situational, verbal |
Depends on the audience's knowing something the protagonist has not yet realized. | Dramatic/tragic irony |
Exists when what happens is at odds with what the story's situation leads readers to expect will happen. | Situational irony |
Occurs when what is said is in contrast with what is meant. | Verbal irony |