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Character …

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People in a story who are given certain traits by the author

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Plot …

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This is the main idea or plan of the story, in most short stories it begins with motivation.
- authors present two opposing forces in conflict

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Setting …

Explain the types

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1) Time, 2) place, and 3) mood (atmosphere)

1) decade, month, day, hour, year etc.
2) country, galaxy, neighborhood etc.
3) emotional quality of a piece of literacy

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Theme …

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The “message” the author intends to communicate through telling the story

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Unity …

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Effect that is achieved when an author uses his material in the best arrangement and order. Stages of the story are linked together

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Initial incident

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First event or problem that the rest of the story depends on

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Exposition …

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Background material that introduces the essentials of the story

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Surprise ending …

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An ending that is twisted or not expected to happen

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Falling action …

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Following the climax to resolution, sharp decline in dramatic tension

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Antecedent action …

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Actions that take place before the story

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Outcome …

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The way the story ends. Always two possibilities to an ending

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Conflict types (3)

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Man vs man

Man vs himself

Man vs environment/nature

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Climax …

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Highest point of action and interest. Series of events arrange in such a way that one heightens the suspense until the highest point is reached

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Complication…

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An obstacle that increases the tension of the stories conflict

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Suspense

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Techniques used by the author to keep the reader interested in the story

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Denouement

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The untangle meant of the story - information is given and events occur which clarifies the outcome

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Rising action

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The part including exposition that leads up to the climax (tension rising in the story)

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Tone (attitude)

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Attitude a write takes towards the subject generally a story has a predominant tone

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Protagonist

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Central or main character in a story

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Antagonist

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Opposing force to the protagonist

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Round character

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Complex and many-sided character

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Flat character

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Summed up in very few traits

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Stereotyped character

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A character that reoccurs enough thought the story that they become stereotyped

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Static character

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A character that remains the same throughout the story

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First person narrator

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Using words such as I, me, or we.
A) major character telling the story of themselves
B) minor character telling the story about someone else

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Irony … what types

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Verbal- sarcasm
Situational - a situation appears to be turning into it’s natural conclusion and turns unexpectedly
Dramatic - speaker doesn’t know or mean it but the reader understands it

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Thesis / topic sentence

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Presents the main idea of an essay proposition of the topic

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Allusion

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Reference to a mythical, historical, or literary, person, place, or event

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Onomatopoeia

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Sound of a word describing a sound

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Alliteration

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The repetition of the same consonant in two or more closely related words

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Hyperbole

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Extreme exaggeration

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Apostrophe

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Form of personification

An animal from a second person point of view

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Understatement

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Something described to less than what it actually is, less intense

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Metaphor

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Implied comparison between two things, saying exactly what it is

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Simile

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Comparison between two things using the words “like”, “as”, or “than”

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Personification

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Giving human abilities or qualities to an inanimate object

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Paradox

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Statement that seems contradictory but is well-founded or true

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Dilemma

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Refers to two choices which a character faces both of which are undesirable

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Foreshadowing

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Giving hints of events that could or will happen in the future

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Symbol

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Something that stands for another thing a person, object or action that symbolizes something beyond it’s actual meaning

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Imagery

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The use of selected details to describe on we thing in terms of another

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