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Elements Of Fiction Flashcards

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The individuals whose thoughts and actions make up a story?

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Characters

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The place in which the story takes place?

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Setting

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The central, focal figure in a work of fiction?

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Protagonist

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3
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A character or force have that works against the protagonist, creating obstacles.

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Antagonist

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4
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The arrangement or sequence of events within stories.

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Plot

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The feeling of a literary?

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Mood

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6
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Characters that are fully developed with both positive qualities and flaws?

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Round character

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7
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Characters that under go change during the story?

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Dynamic characters

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Characters that don’t undergo changes in the story?

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Static characters

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Characters that are one dimensional?

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Flat characters

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Methods used by an author to develop a character?

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Characterization

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An obstacle that the protagonist must overcome?

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Conflict

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12
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When the protagonist has a problem with another character?

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Character vs character

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A conflict in which the protagonist has to overcome a problem with his or herself?

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Character vs self

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A problem In which the protagonist has to struggle against a natural disaster?

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Character vs nature

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A conflict when the protagonist faces a problem on society?

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Character vs society

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16
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A problem that the protagonist fears is to far out of reach?

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Character vs fate

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17
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Characters are introduced background information to better understand he story?

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Exposition

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A clue that hints on what will happen later into the story?

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Foreshadowing

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19
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Conflict leading to the climax?

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Rising action

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20
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The turning point of a story?

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Climax

21
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The action that follows the climax?

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Falling action

22
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The conclusion of the story?

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Resoulution

23
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An unexpected resolution of a story?

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Situational irony

24
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The ideas that weave the characters, setting and events?

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Theme

25
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A second story within the main plot of the story?

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Subplot

26
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What is the repetition of similar sounds at the end of the word.

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Rhyme

27
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What are groups of lines that are linked together, often by thoughts?

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Stanza

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What is the pattern at the end of the poem?

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Rhyme scheme

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The pattern of unstressed syllables?

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Rhythm

30
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A repeated pattern of unstressed syllables.

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Meter

31
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A pair of rhyming lines In a poem?

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Couplet

32
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A four line poem or stanza?

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Quatrain

33
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The use of words to make an effect?

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Figurative language

34
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A comparison of two things using like or as?

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Simile

35
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A comparison of words without using like or as

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Metaphor

36
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A metaphor that developed over several lines?

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Extended metaphor

37
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The use of a person or thing to represent something?

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Symbolism

38
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The repetition of constant sounds at the beginning of words?

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Alliteration

44
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Unrhymed lambic pentameter.

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Blank verse

45
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Poetry that does not follow a rhyme or rhythm.

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Free verse

46
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Poetry that tells story.

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Narrative poetry

47
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A long narrative poem about a hero

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Epic

48
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A tragic poem and dramatic conclusion

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Ballad

49
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Poetry that focuses on a single reader

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Lyric poetry

50
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Extreme exaggeration

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Hyperbole

51
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When you give an object or animal a human quality

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Personification

86
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The repetition of a constant sound in several words of a line or stanza?

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Consonance

87
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The repetition of a vowel sound in several words of a line or stanza?

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Assonance

88
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A five line poem that is often humorous.

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Limerick

89
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A 14 line rhyming poem.

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Sonnet

90
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A meter in which each unstressed syllables followed by a stress syllable.

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Lambic pentameter

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