Plot and Setting Flashcards

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Plot

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Short story or novel

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Narrative

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basic events that form a whole narrative

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Conflicts

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tension created by conflicets develops the complexity of a short story

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Expostion

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Beginning of a narrative were we learn about the setting, character and situation

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Rising action

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conflict becomes more clear and main character starts to experience complications

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Climax

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story suspense emotion, tension peak is the climax

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Comedy

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the protagonist situation often improves

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Tragedy

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Usually worsens

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Falling action

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opposite the cause behind rising action

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Denoument

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Express a sort of “moral of the story” or “And they lived happily ever after”

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In medias res

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In the middle action

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Resolution

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Readers still have questions about the meaning of narratives events

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Flashback

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narrator explains what happend prior to the story

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Foreshadowing

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To hint at events to come

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Setting

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When and where the story takes place

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