Literary Elements Test
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| show | Most basic plot structure; also called DRAMATIC structure as this is the structure most commonly used in drama
Follows chronological time and story revolves around a singular event
Plot structure that most closely aligns with Freytag's pyramid
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| show | Exposition, Rising Action, Turning Point/Reversal of Fortune, Falling Action, Climax, Denou'ment
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| show | Introduces setting, central characters, central conflicts
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| *Rising Action | show 🗑
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| show | Around midway through the story something is going to happen that will affect the outcome of the conflict.
If the drama will end happily, it is usually positive. If the drama will end unhappily, it is usually negative.
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| show | Events start happening more quickly. You may start seeing the outcomes of secondary conflicts.
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| show | You see the final outcome of the central conflict.
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| *Denoue'ment | show 🗑
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| show | PLOTS
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| *Types of Internal Conflict | show 🗑
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| show | Man vs. Man, Man vs. Society, Man vs. Nature, Man vs. Technology, Man vs. Supernatural
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| Episodic Plot | show 🗑
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| show | Only in the novel genre
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| *Flashback | show 🗑
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| *Time Lapse | show 🗑
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| *Foreshadowing | show 🗑
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| show | a structure that enables an author to combine or weave two or more dramatic plots in a story. In the beginning, these multiple dramatic plots run on their own up to their rising events but then crash together at the climax
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| Suspense | show 🗑
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| How might a parallel plot increase suspense in a story? | show 🗑
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| Flashback Plot | show 🗑
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| In what way do readers gain understanding in the flashback plot? | show 🗑
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| *What are the three plot endings? | show 🗑
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| *Closed ending | show 🗑
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| *Open | show 🗑
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| show | very abrupt ending; left not knowing the repercussions of the end of conflict and possibly not even end of the conflict
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| Framed Narrative | show 🗑
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| show | relates to who
the narrator in a work is, from what
voice or angle of vision or perspective
a story or other literary work is told.Is
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| show | Everyday: means opinion
AP Lit: used to ID who the narrator is
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| show | the narrator is a character in
the story and speaks with the pronoun
“I” to narrate.
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| show | the narrator is distanced from the
story and speaks with a more
impersonal voice using the pronouns “she,”
“he,” or “they”
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| show | Omniscient, limited, objective
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| show | the narrator seems to
know everything about every character, all
their thoughts, motivations, and feelings.
Frequently this narrative “voice” is assumed
to be that of the story’s author.
**“Omniscient” means “all knowing”
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| show | the narrator knows the
thoughts, motivations, and feelings of a
limited number of characters, not of all
characters. Most commonly, the narrator
shows us the story’s action through the
consciousness of only one character.
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| show | The story is laid out
before readers like a drama/movie and has
no narrator. Instead, the characters move
about and speak to one another as though on
stage, and we learn from watching their
actions and listening to their words.
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| show | Is the character reliable or unreliable?
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| show | this narrator seems to be
trustworthy, aware of what is true and
untrue, and we believe that the narrator not
only knows the truth but is also sharing it
with readers.
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| show | 3rd person omniscient
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| show | a narrator can be unreliable
because he or she just does not understand
events, even though he or she may be the
narrative voice whom we must depend upon
to tell us the story.
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| *Interior Monologue | show 🗑
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| *Stream of Consciousness | show 🗑
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| show | one relates to thoughts only while another
includes feelings and perceptions.
interior
monologue respects syntax (word order) and
grammatical form, but stream of
consciousness does not, being intended to
show “a direct quotation of the mind”
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| show | Location, geography, time of year, time of day, year, weather, historical context and cultural context of the story
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| show | settings can prompt characters to act, force revelations, and reveal characters' true "natures" within a text
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| show | 1. Affect character motivation and actions
2. Reveal the nature of a character
3. Mirror the plot
4. Act as another CHARACTER; such as the antagonist
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| What can SETTING do in a text? (5-9) | show 🗑
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| show | A genre of literature in which the setting is so pivotal to the plot and character development that the story could not reasonably take place in a different location.
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| show | everything surrounding the setting of a particular story. If you don't understand the context, you can not fully understand the story.
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| show | The particular ethics, morals, laws, socioeconomics, ideals of the specific culture in which the characters live in that story. Overall, more narrow than historical context because it deals with the culture of a specific group within the story.
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| show | physical, psychological, emotional
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| characters must have motivation in order to _ | show 🗑
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| show | character can be any person, a figure, an inanimate object, or animal
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| show | character with one or two overarching traits; not very realistic; usually has smaller role
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| show | character that is not all good or bad; highly realistic; may make both good choices and bad choices
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| show | STOCK and ARCHETYPE
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| *Stock Character | show 🗑
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| show | TROPE
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| show | universal and may follow a pattern of actions or behaviors but often do evolve during the course of a story.
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| show | develop/evolve throughout the story usually as a result of the conflict of the story.
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| *Static characters | show 🗑
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| *Hero | show 🗑
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| *Antihero | show 🗑
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| Direct Characterization | show 🗑
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| Indirect Characterization | show 🗑
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| *Protagonist | show 🗑
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| *Antagonist | show 🗑
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