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Fiction Terms Flashcards

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Tale in prose w/literal & symbolic meaning. Abstract ideas/moral qualities.

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Allegory

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2
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Person opposing protagonist

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Antagonist

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3
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Carries out plot of story

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Character

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4
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Doesn’t change

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Static

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Changes

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Dynamic

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6
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Few, simple traits

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Flat

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7
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Various, complex traits

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Rounded

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8
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Methods of showing a characters traits

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Characterization

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9
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Highest point of a story.

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Climax

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10
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Work w/happy ending

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Comedy

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11
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Episodes leading to climax

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Complications

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12
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Struggles main character faces

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Conflict

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13
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Turning point

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Crisis

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14
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Tying up of loose ends

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Denouement

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15
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Speech of region/social group

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Dialect

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16
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Authors word choice

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Diction

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17
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Insertion of unrelated material

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Digression

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18
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Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement

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Dramatic structure

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19
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Quotation/motto at beginning of a work w/a point

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Epigraph

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20
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Background info on a work

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Exposition

21
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High element of magic/fantasy

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Fairytale

22
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Reversal of fortune after climax

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Falling action

23
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Character contrasts another character

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Foil

24
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Songs/stories passed down by word of mouth

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Folklore

25
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Story told as true, but isn’t, can have element of truth

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Folktale

26
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Hints of what will happen in the future

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Foreshadowing

27
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Shape/structure of a literary work

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Form

28
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Using grotesque/gloomy settings & mystery/violence

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Gothic

29
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Difference b/w what really is & what seems to be

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Irony

30
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Saying one thing & meaning something else

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Verbal irony

31
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Diff b/w what is expected & what happens

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Situational irony

32
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Reader knows something character doesn’t

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Dramatic irony

33
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Explains origins of things of the world

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Myths

34
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Book length fictional prose narrative

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Novel

35
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Structure/action in a short story/novel

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Plot

36
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Who is telling story

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Point of view

37
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Narrator is protagonist

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1st main

38
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Acquaiantance tells story of protagonist

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1st minor

39
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Author tells story, knows all

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3rd omniscient

40
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Author tells story, only in a few ppl’s minds

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3rd limited

41
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Author isn’t in anyone’s mind

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3rd objective

42
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Main character

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Protagonist

43
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Conclusion/tying up of loose ends

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Resolution

44
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Complications leading to climax

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Rising action

45
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Where & when story happens

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Setting

46
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Central idea of story

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Theme

47
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Attitude w/which a writer speaks

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Tone

48
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Literary work where main character is defeated, yet is heroic & courageous

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Tragedy

49
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Basically good person w/fatal flaw causing downfall

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Tragic hero

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