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Inference

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a conclusion or opinion that has been formed due to the process of inferring
deduce or conclude

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Setting as Mirror

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  • prevailing mood
  • signal or reinforce prevailing emotions
  • can make a connection or describe something of the character
    - dusty roads = dried up characters
  • can be ironic
    - depressed character in spring time
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Setting as Mold

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  • setting shapes a character

- may show a character rebelling against a stifling environment, struggling to break free

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Setting as Escape

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  • takes us to imaginary settings were we act out day dreams

- a faraway setting may not really provide an escape; it may be the destination of a journey of discovery

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Alien Setting

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  • may be inhospitable
  • may struggle with an environment that defies your best efforts to get control of the situation, to understand what is going on
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Elements of setting include:

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  • location
  • historical period (past, present, future)
  • type of place
  • time (year, day)
  • weather
  • special objects
  • people or characters
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Theme

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  • The main idea or underlying meaning of a literary work
  • not every literary work has a theme
  • can be major or minor
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Major Theme

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  • an idea that the author returns to time and time again

- it becomes one of the most important ideas in the story

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Minor Theme

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idea that may appear only periodically

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Subject

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is the topic on which an author has chosen to write

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How do authors express themes?

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    • emotions
      - sharing feelings of the main character
    • thoughts and conversations
      - look for repeated thoughts
  3. -through characters
    - what does the main character learn
  4. actions or events
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Symbol

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something that communicates more than its literal meaning, can be used to express feelings, emotions and ideas

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1st Person Point of View

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  • narrator is part of the story
  • readers better understand feelings of that character as we get direct access to his or her thoughts
  • use of the words “I”, “my”, “we”..
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3rd Person Point of View

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  • outside narrator refers to characters by name or pronouns such as “he”, “she” or “they”
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3rd Person Point of View Limited

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narrator knows thoughts and feelings of main character only

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3rd Person Point of View Omniscient

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narrator is an “all-knowing” entity that can express the thoughts of any character

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Direct Characterization

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what they do and what they say

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Indirect Characterization

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what others say about them

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Static Characters

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  • remain the same throughout a story

- remain constant from the beginning to the end

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Dynamic Characters

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  • change in a story
  • they change their ways, or their outlooks, ways of thinking
  • have epiphanies
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Foils

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are two characters who serves as opposites to each other

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Round Characters

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  • are characters that are shown in depth with many features
  • sometimes have internal monologue
  • sense of all around character, their motivations
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Flat Characters

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  • are characters whose features and attributes are shown only so much that it serves the function of the story
  • there is little, if any, depth to their character
  • don’t see what is going on in their minds
  • brief appearances
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What do all of Shakespeare’s tragedies revolve around…

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a central theme

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Soliloquy

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a theatrical speech made by a character who is alone on the stage.

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Form: Open

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No rules. No distinguished pattern of lines, meter, stanza, and rhythm

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Meter

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Rhythm which is created by the number and length of feet in a line. Feet refers to stressed and unstressed syllables, when a meter is repeated it is called a foot.

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Iambic

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An iamb is a foot which is made from an unstressed syllable and followed by a stressed syllable or vice versa.

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Couplet

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stanza which is composed of only two lines which often rhyme and are in the same meter.

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Sonnet

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14 lines. Usually in iambic pentameter and follow a specific rhyme scheme. There are two common rhyme schemes which are as follows: abab cdcd efef gg and abbaabbaa

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Prose Poem

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Does not use line breaks. Ex. Short Story.

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ode

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a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject

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lyric

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expressing the writers emotions

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ballad

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narrating a story in short stanzas

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oxymoron

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combines contradicting terms (faith unfaithful kept him..)

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nostalgia

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regret

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apathetic

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emotionless..

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