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Short Story Terms Flashcards

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Reference to a statement, a person, a place, an event, or anything that is known from literature, history, religion, myth, politics, sports, science, or the arts.

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Allusion

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Narrative in which characters and settings stand for abstract ideas or moral qualities.

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Allegory

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Element of uncertainty in a text, in which something can be interpreted in a number of different ways.

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Ambiguity

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4
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Individual in a story, poem, or play.

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Character

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Author tells us directly what the character is like

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Direct characterization

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Must use clues to figure out what a character is like

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Indirect characterization

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Plays important role in story, but not the main character

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Insubordinate character

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8
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Does not change much in the story

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Static character

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Character changes as a result of the story’s action

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Dynamic character

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Have one or two personality traits - can be summed up in one phrase

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Flat character

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Struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces, or emotions.

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Conflict

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12
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Struggle within a character

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Internal conflict

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Struggle against an outside force

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External conflict

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All meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggest

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Connotation

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15
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Dictionary meaning of a word

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Denotation

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16
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Way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or group of people

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Dialect

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17
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The category that a work of literature is classified under

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Genre

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18
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Use of clues to hint at what will happen later in the story

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Foreshadowing

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19
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Contrast between expectation and reality

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Irony

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20
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What actually happens is opposite of what is expected of appropriate

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Situational irony

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21
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Speaker says one thing but means the opposite

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Verbal irony

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22
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When the audience knows something important that a character does not know

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Dramatic irony

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23
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A story’s atmosphere or the feeling it evokes

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Mood

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The attitude a writer takes towards a subject, character, or the reader

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Tone

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Series or related events that make up a story or drama (what happens in a story)

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Plot structure

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Introducing to the story - explains or gives information

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Exposition

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Events in the story that lead to the turning point

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Rising action

28
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Biggest part of the story/ turning point

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Climax

29
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Occurs after the climax - tying up of story

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Falling action

30
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Story is wrapped up/ conflicts are resolved

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Resolution/ denouement

31
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Vantage point from which a writer tells a story

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Point of view

32
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“All knowing” - reader knows what all characters are thinking

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Omniscient

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Thoughts and feeling of one character

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3rd person limited

34
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Narrator tells the story

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1st person

35
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Narrator may not be telling the truth

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Unreliable narrator

36
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Main character

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Protagonist

37
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The character or force that blocks the protagonist

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Antagonist

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Person, place, thing, or event that stands for something beyond itself

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Symbolism

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Central idea of insight about human life revealed through a work of literature

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Theme

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The writer’s/ speakers choice or words - created by tone and diction

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Voice

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The way a writer uses language (diction- word choice/ figurative language)

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Style

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Time and place of story

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Setting

43
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Many characteristics, traits, sometimes contradicting.

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Round character

44
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Word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of something else

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Figurative Language

45
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Themes commonly found in all literature of all cultures and ages

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Universal theme

46
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Song, or song like poem that tells a story

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Ballad

47
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Two consecutive lines of poetry that form a unit, emphasized by rhythm or rhyme.

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Couplet

48
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Saying something about one thing but describing another.

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Figurative language

49
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Poetry that does now have a regular rhyme scheme

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Free verse

50
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Language that appeals to senses

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Imagery

51
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Speaking emotions or thought, but does not tell a story

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Lyric poem

52
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The images described imply a comparison between a captain commanding his ship and a president tending to his country

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Implied metaphor

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Developed over several lines or throughout an entire poem

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Extended metaphor

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Inconsistent combination of two or more metaphors

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Mixed metaphor

55
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Generally regular pattern of stressed & unstressed syllables in poetry

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Meter

56
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Use of a word whose sound imitates its meaning

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Onomatopoeia

57
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Describe a mom human think like it were a human

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Personification

58
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Rhythmic, compressed language that uses figured of speed to appeal to the reader

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Poetry

59
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Four lined units

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Quatrain

60
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Repeated words, phrase, line, or group of lines

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Refrain

61
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Repetition accented vowels sounds in close together words

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Rhyme

62
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Comparison between 2 unlike things by using connective words

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Simile

63
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Fourteen line lyrical poem, usually written in iambic pentameter

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Sonnet

64
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Words that sound similar, but so not rhyme exactly

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Approximate rhyme

65
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Within lines

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Internal rhyme

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