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Midterms Definitions Flashcards

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dialogue written to reflect qualities of a characters speech

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Dialect

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the mood or emotion that the reader is supposed to share with a story’s characters

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Atmosphere

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hinting at events that will occur latter in the story

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Foreshadowing

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a protagonist who behaves virtuously

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Hero

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the creation of a setting reflecting the characteristic features of a specific region

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Local color

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the assigning of human characteristics to something that is not human

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Personification

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argument that motivates the listener to charge his actions

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Persuasion

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literature plainly written to persuade the reader to espouse (adopt) the authors position on a significant issue of his time

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Propaganda

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the time , place, and way of life in which the action of the story occurs

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Setting

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10
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anxiety resulting from an authors withholding of plot details

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Suspense

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11
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central character of the story

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Protagonist

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the opposing person or force against the protagonist

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Antagonist

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13
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the protagonist in a tragedy

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Tragic hero

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writing that seeks to aid the reader in seeing or feeling whatever the author is trying to convey

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Description

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15
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What a character does

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Action

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16
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A conversation between characters

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Dialogue

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a character who is complex and often undergoes changes in his actions an thoughts

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Round character

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a character with little individuality whose mindset the reader knows little about

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Flat character

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a character who remains essentially the same throughout the story

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Static character

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a changing or developing character

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Character trait

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a type of character description in which straightforward details tell the reader about the character

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Direct characterization

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a type of characterization in which the reader must infer character traits from information shown by the author

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Indirect characterization

23
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a character used to emphasize another characters opposing traits within a work

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Fouls

24
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a character with whom the reader identifies or for whom the reader has favorable feelings

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Sympathetic character

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a character with whom the reader cannot identify or for whom the reader has strong feelings of dislike

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Unsympathetic character

26
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literature whose protagonist flaws cause him tremendous suffering that eventually result in a catastrophe or disastrous conclusion

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Tradegy

27
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the protagonist mosts significant flaw that triggers the tragic heros downfall

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Tragic flaw

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character sometimes called simply the norm who models and articulates the authors ethics throughout the story

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Normative character

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the reason that a character behaves as he or she does

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Character motivation

30
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changing or developing character

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Dynamic character

31
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A recurring or emerging idea in a work of literature

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Theme

32
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An idea about life that is found throughout world literature because it can be understood by people of all times and places

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Universal theme

33
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A theme stated outright within a work of literature

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Explicit theme

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A theme that is not stated out- right but must be discerned from the details that the author includes in the work.

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Implicit theme

35
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A simple statement that sums up a truth about life

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Moral

36
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a type of extended metaphor that forms a story with two levels of meaning.

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Allegory

37
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A person, place, thing, or idea that means something in addition to itself

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Symbol

38
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Irony occurring when an author’s or character’s meaning differs from what he or she expresses in words

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Verbal irony

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A type of irony in which the reader is aware of a plot development of which the characters of the story are unaware

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Dramatic irony

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A type of irony in which a story’s events violate normal expectations

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Situational irony

41
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The reason that an author composed his or her work.

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Authorial intent

42
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the perspective or angle from which a story is told (the perspective from which

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Point if veiw

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the person created by the author to tell the story, affecting the way the story is told (an individual created to narrate the story)

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Persona

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The point of view in which the author refers to the characters as he, she, or they

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Third person point of veiw

45
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as the storyteller, “knows all.” (Perspective using view of one character, written in third person)

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Omniscient veiw point

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Viewpoint of a narrative in which the author tells the story in third person and “gets inside” only one of the characters, usually the central character

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Limited-omniscient veiw point

47
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The point of view in which the author, as one of the characters, refers to himself as I throughout the piece (perspective that is limited to one characters perception and voice)

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First-person view point

48
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a type or category of literature

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Genre

49
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a story that contains another story or an introductory story from which another story springs

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Frame story

50
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a short narrative of a single interesting or amusing incident (is usually not told from the omniscient point of view)

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Anecdote

51
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fictional story that employs authentic historical characters or settings (it is a genre based on content, it can easily be written from any point of view, the setting must be of a real place and culture)

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Historical fiction

52
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Fiction in which a recurring character (a detective) investigates and solves crimes

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Detective fiction

53
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A short selection written by the author about his experience(s) and focused on a particular event or happening

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Autobiographical essay

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