Shots Stories Flashcards
Antagonist
Against main character
Protagonist
Main character
Setting
Time in place
Exposition
Introduction
Inciting force
Importance to protagonist
Rising action
Series of events
Crisis
Small problem, protagonist has to make decisions
Climax
Highest part (emotional)
Falling action / denouement
The results/solution
Conclusion
The end
Conflict
The fight of complication
Dramatic irony
The reader/viewer knows something that characters in the story don’t know
1st person point of view
Character speaks as “I”
2nd person point of view
Not a character
Omniscient narrator
All knowing narrator
Blas
Is the narrator slanting or shifting the truth?
Simile
Comparison using like or as
Metaphor
Comparison with out using like or as
Personification
Applying human traits to an inanimate object
Hyperbole
Exaggeration
Alliteration
Two or more words that start with the same consonant
Onomatopoeia
Word sounds like it’s meaning
Assonance
Two or more words with the same vowel