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genre

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Is one of the types or categories into which literary works are divided

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Major genres of literature include:

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Fiction
Nonfiction
Poetry
Drama

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Fiction

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Tells an invented or imaginary story

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Novel

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• Long work of fiction

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Short story

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• brief works of fiction
• a short story is carefully crafted to develop a plot, characters, setting, mood, and theme, all within relatively few pages

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Novella

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A short novel or a long short story

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Plot

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The series of events to a central conflict, or struggle

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A plot typically introduces…

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A conflict, develops it, and eventually resolves it

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A plot contains the following elements

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Exposition
Rising actuon
Climax
Falling action
Resolution

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Exposition

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• Introduction
• sets the tone or mood
• characters and setting
• Provides background info

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Rising action

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• the conflict is developed and intensified

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climax

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• crisis
• high point of interest in a literary work
• turning point of the action
• the point in which the rising action ends and the falling action begins

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falling action

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• consists of all the events that follow the climax
• tensions ease as the conflict begins to be resolved

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resolution

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• “denouement”
• it is the point at which the central conflict is ended or resolved
• loose ends are tired

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characters

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• is an individual that takes part in the action of a literary work
• a character is usually a person but also may be a personified plant, animal, object, or imaginary creature

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main character

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• Is also know as the protagonist
• he or she is the most important character in the work and is in conflict with the antagonist
• plays a significant role in a literary work

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minor characters

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play lesser roles in a literary work but help support the plot

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flat character

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shows only one quality, or character trait

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round character

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shows the multiple character traits of a real person.

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round character

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shows the multiple character traits of a real person

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static character

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does not change during the course of the action

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dynamic character

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changes throughout the story

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protagonist

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the main character in a literary work

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antagonist

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character or force in opposition or in conflict with a main character or protagonist

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characterization

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• the act of creating or describing a character

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three techniques of characterization

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1. Showing that characters say, do, or think
2. Showing what characters say or think about them
3. Describing what physical feature, dress, and personality the characters display

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There are two types of characterization:

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a. indirect characterization
b. direct characterization

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Indirect characterization

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the writers shows what a character is like and allows the reader to judge the character.

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direct characterization

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the writer tells what the character is like.

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setting

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• time and place

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conflict

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also known as crisis, is the struggle between two forces in a literary work

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internal conflict

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the main character struggles against some elements within himself or herself
◦ character vs. self

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external conflict

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the main character struggles against an external source
◦ character vs. character
◦ character vs, nature
◦ character vs. society
◦ character vs. technology

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pov

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• vantage point from which a story is told
• who is telling the story.

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first person pov

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the story is told from someone who participates in or witnesses the action of the story. This narrator uses the pronouns I, we, me, us, my, mine.

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Third person pov

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• the narrator stands outside of the action of the story and observes.
• This narrator uses the pronouns he, she, it, they, them, their

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Limited point of view:

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the narrator only sees into the mind of one character; the thoughts of a single character are revealed.

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Omniscient point of view:

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the narrator sees into the mind of all characters; the thoughts of all the characters are revealed.

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theme

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• Central message

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Stated theme

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theme that is presented directly

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implied theme

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theme that must be inferred

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universal theme

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is a message about life that can be understood by people of most cultures

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foreshadowing

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technique of hinting at events that will occur later in the story

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flashback

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• interrupts the chronological sequence or flow of a literary work and presents an event that occurred earlier.
• Writers use flashback to provide background information about characters or situations.

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symbol

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anything that stands for or represent both itself or something else.

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conventional symbol

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is one with traditional, widely recognized associations