Terms

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Atmosphere/mood

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Affects the way we feel about the setting

Question 1

Antagonist

Answer 1

The character of force the protagonist struggles against and must over come

Question 2

Autobiography

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An account of the writers own life

Question 3

Biography

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An account of a person’s life, written or told by anyone

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Connotation

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All meanings, associations, or emotions that have come to be attached to some words, in addition to their literal dictionary definitions

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Den oration

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The strict dictionary definition

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Dialogue

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The conversation between characters in a story

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Essay

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Short piece of nonfiction that examines a single subject from a limited point of view

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Narrator

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Voice telling the story

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Novel

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Fictional prose narrative usually consisting of more than 50 thousand words

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Protagonist

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Main character in fiction or drama

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Satire

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Type of writing that ridicules something (a person, a group of people, humanity at large, an attitude or failing, a social institution ) in order to reveal a weakness

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Setting

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The time and place of a story or play

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Short story

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Short, concentrated, fictional prose narrative

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Stereotype

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A set form or convention

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Symbol

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

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Theme

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Central idea of a work of literature

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Prose

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Spoken or written language as in ordinary usage

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Tone

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Attitude a writer takes toward a subject, a character, or the audience

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Plot

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Can be told in: chronological order, flashback, in media res (If I Stay)

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Intro./exposition

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Establishes atmosphere, setting, main characters, central conflict, and point of view

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Climax or turning point

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Moment of choice for protagonist situation either gets better or gets worse

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Rising action/suspense

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Series of complications/related events for the protagonist, builds curiosity

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Falling action or anticlimax

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Decrease in emotional intensity

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Resolution or denouement

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Conclusion unraveling of the plot

• explicit or implicit
• thematic ideas become clear

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Conflict

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The struggle between two forces in a story, without conflict there is no plot

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External conflict

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Man vs man, man vs nature, mans vs society

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Internal conflict

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Man vs himself

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Point of view

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• first person (I I I)
• second person (Uncle Sam)
• third person limited (movie camera)
• third person omniscient (thoughts)

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Characterization

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Tells us what the character is like

• how they look or dress
• speech
• private thoughts and feelings
• their effect on others
• their actions

Question 30

Verbal irony

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A writer or speaker says one thing but really means another

Question 31

Situational irony

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A contrast between what we expect to happen and what actually happens

Question 32

Dramatic irony

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When the reader knows something important that a character does not know