Narrative and Dramatic Elements (REAL ONE)

Question 1

Comedy

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Story whose chief purpose is to amuse. Usually ends in marriage.

Question 2

Tragedy

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Story whose chief purpose is to examine sad themes. Usually ends in everybody dying.

Question 3

Fable

Answer 3

A brief story about human tendencies through animal characters.

Question 4

Fantasy

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Imaginative fiction dependent for effect on strangeness of setting and of characters

Question 5

Graphic Text

Answer 5

Telling story through both text and picture.

Question 6

Legend

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Traditional story/stories told about something that is asssumed to be true without too much evidence.

T1 Faker

Question 7

Melodrama

Answer 7

Drama but it doesn’t make sense. No cause and effect, but really funny.

Question 8

Mystery

Answer 8

idk

Question 9

Myth

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an attempt to explain mysteries, represents reality in dramatic ways.

Question 10

Catastrophe (plot)

Answer 10

the scene which includes the death or moral destruction of the protagonist, or completes the unraveling of the plot.

Question 11

Indeterminate Ending

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when the story’s loose ends are not tied up, not sure what the outcome of the story’s main conflict is.

Question 12

Resolved Ending

Answer 12

Everything is done, very nice

Question 13

Surprise Ending

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when a plot twist happens near the end of the story, usually changing the reader’s view of the preceding events or characters.

Question 14

Ok I’m skipping the obvious ones

Answer 14

You should all know the plot devices, I ain’t writing allat

Question 15

Foreshadowing

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when something is hinted at

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Flashback

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when the narrative leaves present time and moves to a time in the past, often in a dream or daydream.

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Suspense

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the quality of a work that makes the reader ask “what next?”

Question 18

Frame Story

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Multiple stories that are kinda together (frame). It are totally unrelated with one another

Think slay the princess

Question 19

Story within a story

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When a story… is within a story

Question 20

Soliloquy

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When a character in a play is alone on stage and speaks their thoughts aloud

Question 21

Aside

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When actors speak to the audience, usually not being heard by other actors. Usually for comedy, or their own thoughts.

Deadpool

Question 22

Anticlimax

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A disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events, usually used to provide humorous break to tension, or provide shock.

Question 23

Comic Relief

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In a serious story, or drama, comic, provides a lightening of the mood to provide contrast with the seriousness of the plot.

Question 24

Climactic Order

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when the author arranges the events of the story from least important (introduction of characters) to most important (climax or resolution). This format is common in movies.

Question 25

Interior Monologue

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when the character talks to themselves in their head and this is revealed to the reader

Question 26

Flat Character

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One Dimensional Character.

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Round Character

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a character affected by the events of the story. These characters are usually fully developed in terms of personality. They are described in more detail and their personalities emerge more fully. Round characters usually become enlightened, learn, grow, or deteriorate by the end of the story.

Question 28

Static Character

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a character who remains the same throughout the story

Question 29

Dynamic Character

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a character who develops and changes throughout the story

Question 30

Stereotyped/Stock Character

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the black comedic relief, the strict step parent, etc.

Question 31

Character Foil

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A foil is a character that contrasts with another character, usually the protagonist, and so highlights various facets of the main character’s personality.

Question 32

Hero

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traditionally, a hero is a type of protagonist who the audience is supposed to sympathize with and root for, but who has a fatal flaw- a personality characteristic that gets in his way.

Question 33

Caricature

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when a feature of a character is grossly exaggerated in order to ridicule them- can be physical (often in political cartoons) or personality. Common in parodies.

Question 34

now onto characterization

Answer 34

here we go

Question 35

indirect presentation

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This is when the reader learns about the character through indirect means

Question 36

direct presentation

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• an author’s direct statement. Ex: John was an angry man

Question 37

Internal conflict

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character versus self

Question 38

External conflict

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• character versus character
  § character versus nature (the natural environment)
  § character versus society
  § character versus supernatural
  § character versus time

Question 39

Dilemma conflict

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a dilemma in literature is when a character is presented with a difficult choice between two or more possibilities

Question 40

Epiphany (conflict)

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When a character comes to a sudden realization about the world or their situation that changes how they act/what they believe

Question 41

Atmosphere/Mood

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general vibe y’know?

Question 42

Dramatic Irony

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When audience knows something that character does not

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Verbal Irony

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Sarcasm

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Situational Irony

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Difference between appearance and reality, or between what is and what would seem appropriate

Getting hit by an an ambulance

Question 45

THEME

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is the argument or general idea expressed by a literary work, whether implied or explicitly stated. Often it is an observation about life or people.