Academic Language Fiction Flashcards
Whats a plot?
Series of related events that make up a story
What is the subplot
A minor plot that relates in some way to the story
What is a Inciting Incident
The event in the story that causes the conflict.
Whats the Conflict/ problem/ issue?
A strugle between two opposing forces (external and interrnal)
Whats a external conflict
Occurs between a chapter and another chapter, society or a force of nature
Internal conflict
Internal conflict occurs within one character (like emotinal doubts)
Resalution
Conflict is resolved and the story is brought to a close
Climax
Point in the story that creats the greatest suspense or intrest
Exposition
Introduction of a story or book, when the character and setting is first described
Theme/central Idea
An insight or idea about life
Protagonist
Main character in piece of litrature
Antagonist
Another character opposing the protagonist
Mood
overalll feeling of a work of literature
Forshadowing
Use of clues or hints to suggest events that will occur later in the story
Symbolism
Person place or event that has meaning in itself
Point of view
A perspective
First person
Is from the perspective of a character told using pronouns like “ “I,” “me,” “my,” “we,” “us,” or “our.”
Second person
Narrator uses “you” to decribe the readers thoughts, actions, and backround or may speak derrectly to the audience using “you” “you’re” and “your”
Third person
Is narrated by an external narrator (He, She, Him, Her, They)
Third person omniscient
The narrator is all knowing and has access to the thoughts, feelings and actions of the character
Third person limited
The narrator only has access to the thoughts and emotions of one character, usually following that character through the story and describing events that they experience.
Characterization
the way a writer reveals the personality of a character
-S- teal
What he/she Says (Allowing us to hear the character speak)
S-T-eal
What he/she Thinks (Reveal the character’s thoughts and feelings)
St-E-al
What Everyone says about him/her (Showing how others react to the character)
Ste-A-l
What his/her Actions are (Showing the character in action/what they do)
Stea-L-
What he/she Looks like (Describing the appearance of the character)
Figurative language
figures of speech not literally true
Imagery
language that appeals to the five senses
Alliteration
the repetition of consonant sounds in two or more close words or syllables (Peter Piper picked a peck of…)
Metaphors
comparison between two unlike things
Simites
comparison between two unlike things using like or as
Idioms
a phrase that means something different that what is actually said
Onomatopoeia
a word associated with a sound EX: slam, sizzle
Personification
the act of giving human characteristics to something not human
irony
difference between what is meant and what is said
Verbal irony
the difference between what is said and what is written
Situational irony
occurs when what happens is very different from what we expected would happen
Dramatic irony
occurs when the audience or the reader knows something the character does not
