Mid-Term Flashcards

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  • relationship to who’s telling the story
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  • point of view
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  • person telling the story
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  • narrator
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  • introduces the characters, settings, and conflict
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  • exposition
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  • adds complication to the conflict
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  • rising action
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  • some kind of problem or struggle
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  • conflict (internal and external)
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  • point of greatest interest or suspense in the story
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  • climax
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  • all of the events that happened after the climax
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  • falling action
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  • solving the conflict
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  • resolution
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  • changes significantly

- does not change

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  • character (dynamic and static)
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  • comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as”
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  • simile
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  • an implied comparison without using “like” or “as”
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  • metaphor
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  • exaggeration for affect
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  • hyperbole
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  • a message or a lesson that the story is trying to tell you
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  • theme
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  • the narrator is a character in the story (I, me, we)
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  • 1st person
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  • the narrator is outside the story (he, she, they)
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  • 3rd person
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  • seen from one persons perspective
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  • limited
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  • knows thoughts of several characters
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  • omniscient
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  • struggle within a character with opposing feelings or goals
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  • internal conflict
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  • a characters struggle with an outside force such as nature, society, or another person
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  • external conflict
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  • a section of poetry
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  • stanza
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  • a word that actually sounds like what it describes (buzz, clang, whoosh)
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  • onomatopoeia