short story Flashcards
1
Q
the main character in a book. the one who’s fate matters the most
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protagonist
2
Q
someone who is hostile or opposes to the protagonist. synonymous with villain
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antagonist
3
Q
a sudden and great realisation of the essential nature or meaning of something
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epiphany
4
Q
a history or background created for a fictional character
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backstory
5
Q
the introduction to a story. including the primary character’s names, the setting, the mood and the time
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exposition
6
Q
a literary device in narrative, in which a past event is narrated at a point later than its chronological place in a story
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flashback/analepsis
7
Q
a moment in a narrative in which the chronological order of story events is disturbed and the narrator narrates future events
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flash forward/prolepsis
