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What is a dynamic character?

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Has important inner change

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What is a static character?

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Does not change significantly throughout the story

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What is a round character?

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A well developed character with realistic emotions and feelings

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What is a flat character?

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Does not display emotional depth

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What is 2nd person?

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Giving instructions to someone

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What is 1st person?

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Uses “I” and “we”

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What is 3rd person limited?

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Only 1 persons thoughts

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What is 3rd person omniscient?

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U know all peoples thoughts, like god

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What is 3rd person objective?

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You don’t know any persons feelings or thoughts

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What is the setting of a story?

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Time, place, circumstances, atmosphere

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What is a character?

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The people whom the events happen

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What is a protagonist?

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Around whom the action develops;the main character

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What is an antagonist?

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The opposing force in the conflict with the main character

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What 6 elements are in every story?

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Setting, character, plot, conflict, point of view and theme

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What is a plot?

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Sequence of events that make the action of the story

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What is the conflict?

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Struggle that arises between the protagonist and some other person or thing

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What is the point of view?

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The manner he story is told/ who is telling the story

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What is the theme?

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The general idea, universal. NOT the subject

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What is an alliteration?

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Repitition of similar sounds

Ex: peter piper picked a peck of peppers

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What is an allusion?

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Refers to a subject, place, event or literary work

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What is a diction?

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Tone of writing influenced by word choice

Ex: saying ‘like’ all the time

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What is a flashback?

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Before the present time

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What is a foreshadowing?

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Hints that reveal something that’s going to happen

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What is a hyperbole?

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Exaggeration

Ex: I am so tired I cannot walk another inch

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What is an imagery?

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Creates a mental image, very descriptive. Uses the senses

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What is verbal irony?

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Sarcasm

27
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What is situational irony?

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What’s expected isn’t what happens

28
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What is dramatic irony?

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Audience knows more than a character knows

29
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What is a metaphor?

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Comparison NOT USING ‘LIKE’

Ex: Henry was a lion on the battlefield

30
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What is an oxymoron?

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Contrasting concepts used together

Ex: he possessed a cold fire in his eyes

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What is a personification?

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Human traits with inanimate objects

Ex: the raging winds

32
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What is a pun?

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Word suggests two or more meanings

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What is a simile?

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Comparison using ‘like’ or ‘as’

Ex: hungry as a horse

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What is a symbol?

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An object or action that means something more

Ex: a dove= peace

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What is repitition?

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Same word or phrase

Ex: one fish two fish red fish blue fish

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What is an internal conflict?

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Struggle within the heart or mind of the individual ex: man vs fear

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What is external conflict?

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Struggle with forces outside of oneself ex: man vs man

38
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How are characters revealed?

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Explanation, description, speech, environment

39
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1st on plot chart?

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Exposition——beginning

40
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2nd on plot chart?

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Initiating incident——- begins major event or conflict

41
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3rd on plot chart?

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Rising action——- things that prevent easy solution

42
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4th on plot chart?

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Climax——- highest point of interest

43
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5th on plot chart?

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Falling action

44
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6th on plot chart?

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Denouement——- to untie, resolution

45
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What is a synonym?

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Word or phrase that means the same or nearly as another word in the same language
Ex: pretty and attractive

46
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What is the present tense?

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Tells something that’s happening

47
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What is the past tense?

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Tells something that happened

48
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What is the tense agreement?

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Keep the same tense throughout the sentence

49
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What are the parts of a speech?

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Noun, pronoun,verb,adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, interjection

50
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What is an adverb?

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Usually ends in ly

51
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What is a preposition?

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Indicates location

Ex: in/ on

52
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What is conjunction?

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Word used to connect words

Ex: and, but

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What is interjection?

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Expresses strong feeling, almost always with an exclamation mark
Ex: whew!what!wow!

54
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What are the parts of a sentence?

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Subject, predicate, object and clauses

55
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What is the subject?

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Who or what the sentence is about

The noun, pronoun

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What is predicate?

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Rest of sentence

57
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What is the object?

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Word or group of words that receive the action of a verb

58
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What is a clause?

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Contains both a subject and predicate

59
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What is a connotation?

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Added meaning that suggests something positive
Ex: positive of casual: informal or relaxed
Negative: too informal, not caring

60
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What is denotation?

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A words exact meaning

Ex: casual is not fancy or formal

61
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What is a run on sentence?

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When a sentence grows beyond control

62
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What is an incomplete sentence?

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Lack a subject, verb or some other essential part—-incomplete thought
Ex: since he came to New York.

63
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What is a transitional word/ phrase?

A

Words or phrases that connect ideas

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