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Literary Terms Flashcards

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1st person pov

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The narrator is a character in the story
(I, me, we, or our)

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3rd person limited

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Narrator using pronouns that ‘he’, ‘she’, ‘it’ to convey the thoughts and feelings of one character

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3rd person omniscient

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A method in storytelling in which the author knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters

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Conflict

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A struggle between opposing forces

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External conflict

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Struggle between character and outside force
Character vs. society
Character vs. character
For example, Raymond vs society or hazel vs gretchen

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Internal conflict

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The struggle between opposing needs, desires, and emotions within a single character

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Plot

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The story’s central idea

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Exposition

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Background information

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Rising action

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A series of events starting with the conflict and ending with the climax

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Climax

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The most exciting part of a story

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Falling actions

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Events after the climax, Leading to the resolution

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Resolution

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The end of the story

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Foreshadowing

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The author hinting to upcoming events

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Symbolism

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Where an object represents an idea

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Irony

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The use of words to convey a meaning that is its opposite of its literal meaning

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Situational irony

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A discrepancy between the expected result and the actual result

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Verbal irony

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A person says or writes a thing and means the other/opposite

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Dramatic irony

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The audience knows whats happening the the characters don’t

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Setting

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Time and place in a story

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Characters

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People / things in the story

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Protagonist

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Main character, ‘good guy’

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Antagonist

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Character who opposes protagonist, ‘bad guy’

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Static character

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A character that does not change throughout the story

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Dynamic character

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A character who grows, learns or changes as a result of the story

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Round character

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A character who demonstrates complexity or changes

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Flat character

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A character who demonstrates no complexity or change

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Sea Devil setting, characters, plot

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set in Florida bay, late night, September
Manta ray (flat), fisherman (round, dynamic) Fisherman goes to catch fish, catches great “sea devil” manta rays, fights for his life, narrowly escapes, and realizes this is what fish have to suffer and will never kill them again

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Sea devil epiphany

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The man realized all he endured with the manta ray is what a fish, more specifically a mullet, has to endure and decides he will “do no more casting alone at night.”

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Lady or the Tiger setting, characters, plot

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Set in great kings arena
King (static character), princess , princess’s lover, fair maiden (flat character)
A man imprisoned after the king finds out he is having an affair with his daughter. The man is put out in the arena. there is a tiger behind one door and a fair maiden between the other. He looks at the princess, who knows which is behind each door, and she nudges him towards one. We do not know which door it was, because she could have killed him out of jealousy or picked the princess to spare hi. “That is— the lady or the tiger?’

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Lamb to the slaughter characters, setting, plot

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Set in grocery store, Maloney house
Mrs. Maloney, Mr. Patrick Maloney, detective, grocer, police officers
After he admits he wants to divorce, mr Maloney is murdered by his loving wife, ms Maloney. Ms Maloney killed him with a pork chop with she then cooked. She carefully planned out her escapes and the cops had no clue that they were eating the exact lamb chop with mr. Maloneys dead name on it.

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Tell tale heart characters, setting, plot

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Old man, crazy killer, police officers
Set in old mans home
A crazy man wants to kill an old man because of his ‘vulture eye’. He successfully does after watching him sleep for nights. He buries the body under the floorboards. He did this because he could hear the mans heartbeat. When the cops arrived he began to hear the heartbeat again, and admitted out of irritation.

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A retrieved reformation characters, setting, plot

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Jimmy Valentine / Ralph D. Spencer, Ms. Annabel, May, Agatha, Annabel’s father, Annabels married sister, Ben Price

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Too soon a woman plot, characters, setting

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Boy of 11, Mary, pa, Sarah, Elizabeth, uncle

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Sea devil theme

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Treat others hows you wanna be treated

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Lady or the tiger theme

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Don’t be selfish

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Lamb to the slaughter theme

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Try hard, theres more than you thinl

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Tell-tale heart theme

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What’s right and what’s wrong

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A retrieved reformation theme

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Do whats right to forgive your past

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Raymonds run plot, characters, setting

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Hazel / squeaky, Gretchen, Rosie, Mary Louise, Raymond, father
Set on the track, at home, streets of a city
Hazel protects her special brother from bullies and tries to beat Gretchen, a bully, in the track race but Raymond ends up being faster than both and she gives him the medal

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Raymonds run epiphany

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Raymond is fast

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Raymonds run theme

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Don’t judge a book by its cover

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Sea devil. Author.

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Arthur Gordon

43
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Tell-Tale heart author

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Edgar Allen poe

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Lamb to the slaughter author

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Roald Dahl

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Lady or the tiger author

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Frank Stockton

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A retrieved reformation author

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O. Henry / william Sydney Porter

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Raymonds run author

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Toni Cade Bambara

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Too soon a woman author

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Dorothy M. Johnson

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