Novel Flashcards

Learn vocab dont fail test

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Prose

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Most writing is not poetry

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Antagonist

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The enemy of the hero also called the villain

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Protagonist

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The person who receives all the attention and sympathy from the reader (hero)

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Characterization

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Methods used to represent the personality of the character

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Direct

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The authors pacifically describes the character

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Indirect

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The reader has to figure out what the character is like what does the person do say other characters opinions

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Conflict

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Two opposing forces

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Human versus human

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Struggle between two or more characters

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Human versus society

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Struggle with the group

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Human versus nature

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Struggle with environment

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Human versus himself

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Struggle within the character’s mind or conscience

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Man versus super nature

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Struggle with super natural forces

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Plot

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The sequence of related events that make up a story

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Initial event

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The beginning event

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Rising action

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The part of the story rising to the main part

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Climax

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Point of greatest tension

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Revelation

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Outcome of the story

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Devemont

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Last seen of story

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Point of view

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The point from which is told

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First person narrative

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Tell from one person’s point of view

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Limited third person

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Restricted third person (he she it they)

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Omniscient point of view

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Story told from the point of the author

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Setting

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The time, place, and chief circumstances

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Tone mood

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The general spirit or felling of the story

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Theme
The topic or main idea message or moral of story
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Connotation
The connotation is the cimbolic meaning
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Denotation
The denotation is the dictionary definition
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Flashback
The story stops to tell events that happened earlier
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Foil
A character a place or an event is contrasted with earlier character place or event to show how unlike they are
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Foreshadowing
A device in literature that hints at what is to come
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Compare and contrast
When you compare your point out the similarities when you contrast you point out the differences
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Poetic Justice
Moana character receives in the book the reward or punishment he or she deserves
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Satire
What I author ridicules a human weakness to bring it to the attention of the reader