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Unit 1 Fiction Flashcards

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1
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Genre?

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A type of writing. Example:fiction, short story, drama, romance, mystery

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Fiction?

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Made-up and follows a plot.

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Prose?

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Normal writing. Not poetry

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Short story

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Focus on few characters, one conflict, and one theme.

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Point of veiw?

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The perspective of which the story is told.

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First person POV

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“I” or “me” narrator talks about himself or herself.

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Second person POV

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“you” author is talking to a person. Example: advertisement or directions.

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Third person POV

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They, he, or she. The narrator is telling about a character.

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Omniscient- 3rd person POV

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All-knowing

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Limited-3rd person POV

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Limited knowledge.

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Protagonist

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Main character who is struggling with the conflict.

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Antagonist

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Person who always antagonizes the protagonant.

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Setting

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Place, time, and social context.

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Mood

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The atmosphere or the emotional sense.

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Theme.

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Your universal truth that is explored throughout the story.

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What are the 5 elements of fiction.

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Plot, POV, characters, setting, and theme.

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Exposition

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Characters are introduced. Setting is revealed. The mood or tone is established.

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Rising action.

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Main characters try to solve a problem and encounters several obstacles.

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Conflict

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There are 4 types of conflicts:

  • person versus person
  • person versus society
  • person versus nature
  • person versus self
  • person versus technology
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Climax

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The turning point.

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Falling action

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All the events following the climax.

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Resolution

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The central conflict is solved or ended.

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Chronological order

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The events are in the order that they happened

24
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Flashback

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Stops what is happening and remembers the past

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Foreshadowing

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Idiom

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An expression that can’t be understood rom the meanings of it’s separate words but must be learned as a whole

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken or written of as if it were another

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Simile

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A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a comparison

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Analogy

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A comparison of 2 things that are alike in some ways but otherwise quite different

30
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Irony

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The difference between appearance and reality

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Verbal irony

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Sarcasm

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Dramatic irony

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The readers know something that the characters don’t

33
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Situational irony

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When an event goes against your expectation

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