english 1 Flashcards

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round character

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Complex and highly developed and has a variety or traits.

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character

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Characters are individuals who participate in the action of a literary work.

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Flat Character

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Exhibits few traits and we know little bit about them.

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static character

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A person who hasn’t changed through out a story.

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dynamic character

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someone who has changed through out a story.

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indirect characterization

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how the character appears, what they say, and what they do.

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internal conflict

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one that occurs with in a character.

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external conflict

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a character in conflict with an outside force such as nature or another character.

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plot

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sequence if events in a story.

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setting

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time and place of the action in a work of literature.

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theme

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an underline message about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader. typically not stated directly but must be inferred.

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allusion

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indirect reference to a famous person, place, event, or literary work.

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diction

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writer or speakers choice of words and way of arranging words in sentences.

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foreshadowing

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a writers use of hints or clues so suggest events that will occur later in a story.

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protagonist

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a main character in a work literature that is involve in a central conflict.

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antagonist

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principle character or force in opposition to a protagonist

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tone

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the attitude a wrighter takes toward a subject.

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foil

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character that provides a striking contrast to another character.

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direct characterization

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when the writer tells you exactly what the character is like.

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First person point if view

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The narrator is one if the characters in the story. And we as a reader only know what they know.

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Third person omniscient

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All knowing narrator.

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Third limited

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A narrator is not a person in the story. And the reader knows what one character knows.

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Verbal irony

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Speaker says one thing but means another.

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Situational irony

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What actually happens is the opposite of what is expected.

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Dramatic irony

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When the reader knows something that a character does not know.

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Climax

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Highest point if intensity if the story.

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Resolution

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How the story ends.

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Symbol

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Person, place, an object, or an activity that stands that stands for something beyond it self

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Flashback

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When the author interrupts the story to tell about certain events that happen earlier in the story.

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Imagery

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Language that opeels to the 5 senses, sight, hearing, smell, touch , and taste.

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Simile

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Comparing something using like or as.

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Metaphor

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Comparing something not using like or as.

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Paradox

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A seemingly contradictory or certain statement the may suggest to a important truth.

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Suspense

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Uncertainty or anxiety feel about what’s going to happen next in the story.

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Hyperbole

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An exaggeration.

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Rising action

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When the conflict develops the story builds up the the climax and the complications uprise.

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Falling action

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After the climax and shows the results of the importance of the climax.

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Alliteration

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Repetition of Constance sound at the beginning of words.

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds

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Onomatopoeia

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Use of words who’s sounds echo their meaning.
Buzz
Woof
Bam

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Mood

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Feeling or atmosphere the writer creates for the reader.

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Personification

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When human like qualities are given to an object animal or idea.