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1.What is exposition?

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The part of the story that provides the background information and sets the story up

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What are other names for the exposition?

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Introduction, Beginning

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  1. What is Initial incident?
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The event that sets the story in motion

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What are other names for the initial incident?

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Motivating incident

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  1. What is the Rising action?
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All the events of the story that take place between the motivating incident and the climax. This is the longest part of the story

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  1. What is the climax?
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The part where the major conflict/problem is solved, usually the highest point of action

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  1. What is the falling action?
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All the events that occur after the climax, and before the resolution

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What is the 6. Resolution

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The tying up of all the loose ends of the story that were not set up in the falling action

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What is the setting?

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Where the story takes place, the general location, time and year

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What is the point of view?

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It is the perspective from which the story is told

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What are the different points of view?

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Limited omniscient
Omniscient objective
Objective/Camera view
First person

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Explain limited omniscient

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The narrator can see into the minds and thoughts of one character but is not a character in the story

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Explain omniscient

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The narrator can see into the minds and thoughts of all characters and is not a character in the story

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Explain objective/camera

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The story is told as though a camera is filming the action, there are no insights in to the minds of the characters

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Explain First person observer participant

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The narrator is a character in the story. The story is told by this’d of personal pronouns

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What is direct characterization?

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The author tells us directly about the characters

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What is indirect characterization?

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We learn about characters without being directly told Ian’s we draw our own conclusions

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What is a round character?

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A character that we know a great deal about

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What is a flat character?

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A character that we know relatively little about (one or two traits)

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What is a static character?

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A character that does not change from the beginning to end if that story

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What is a dynamic character?

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A character that undergoes a change in their personality, attitude or thinking by the end of the story

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What is a stock character?

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A character that is stereo type

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What are the 6 stages of the line?

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Exposition
Initial incident
Rising action
Climax
Falling action
Resolution
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What is a protagonist?

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The main character in the story, usually the good guy but does not have to be

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What is an antagonist?

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The person or thing that is opposing the protagonist, usually the bad guy, but not always

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What is a conflict?

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A struggle between two forces

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Person vs. Man conflict

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One person vs. Another

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Person vs. her/himself

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A character undergoing a personal struggle

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Person Vs. Nature

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A character in a struggle against a natural element

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Person vs. supernatural

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A character in a struggle against something non human

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What are the 5 stages of the writing process?

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Prewriting 
Writing
Revising
Editing
Publishing
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What is prewriting?

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One of the most important stages in the writing process- this is where your ideas come to get her and for a logical chain of events

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What is another name for writing?

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Rough Draft or Rough Copy

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What are some tips going from writing to pre-writing?

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  • Be selective in the ideas you choose
  • Write Write Write
  • More is better
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What is revising?

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Improving your writing
Looking from a different pout of view
Making your writing clearer, interesting, informative and convincing

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What does A.R.M.S stand for?

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Add
Remove
Move around
Substitute

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What does editing look for?

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Spelling
Capitalization
Punctuation
Grammar
Sentence structure
Subject/verb agreement
Consistent verb tense
Word usage
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What is another name for publishing?

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Good copy

39
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What is situational irony?

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The difference between what ha expected and what actually happens

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What is dramatic irony?

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The readers knows something that the character does not know

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What is a flashback?

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Flashing back, within a story, to something that happened

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What is foreshadowing?

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Hints to what is to come later in the story

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What is the theme?

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The meaning or purpose of the story, usually implied and not stated directly, usually makes a comment about human nature

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What is the mood?

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The overall feeling created my the author

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What is the atmosphere?

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The atmosphere could be sad, gloomy, suspenseful, happy exit

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What is symbolism?

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Using one thing to represent another

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What is complication?

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The problem the main character faces

48
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What is a sonnet?

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a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.

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What is a free verse?

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poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

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What is a haiku?

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a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.

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What is a concrete?

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Concrete, pattern, or shape poetry is an arrangement of linguistic elements in which the typographical effect is more important in conveying meaning than verbal significance

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What is a stanza?

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a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem

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Antonym

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a word opposite in meaning to another

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Mood

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an emotional situation that surrounds the readers

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Tone

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an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience

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Moral

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a message conveyed or a lesson to be learned from a story or event

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Motif

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a motif can be seen as an image, sound, action or other figures that have a symbolic significance and contributes toward the development of theme

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Best exemplified

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be a typical example of.

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infer

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a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning

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