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Unit 1 Fiction Flashcards

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genre

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A type of writing/book, fiction, nonfiction,short story’s, sci-fi,drama, mystery, action, and romance

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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

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Short stories

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Focus on few characters
One conflict
One theme

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Novel

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Many characters
Many conflicts
Many themes

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Point of view

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Perspective from which story. Is told

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1st persons p.o.v.

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“I” “me”

Name is talking about him/her self

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2nd persons p.o.v

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“you”
Author talking to the reader
-advertising
-directions

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3rd person p.o.v.

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They,he,she

Narrator is telling about a character

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Omniscient-3rd person p.o.v.

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All-knowing

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Limited 3rd person p.o.v.

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Limited knowledge

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Protagonist

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Main character

Struggling with the main conflict

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Antagonist

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Antagonizes the protagonist

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Setting

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Place
Time
Social context

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Mood

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Atmosphere

Emotional sense

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Theme

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Universal truth explored throughout the story

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Five elements of fiction

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  • plot
  • point of view
  • characters
  • setting
  • theme
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Idiom

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An expression that can’t be understood from the meanings of its 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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Uses like or as to make a comparison like a metaphor , it can be broken into a tenor and vehicle

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Analogy

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A comparison of two things thAt are alike in some way but otherwise quite different ,similes are expressed analogies ;metaphors are implied analogies

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Dramatic irony

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When the reader knows something the characters don’t

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Verbal irony

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Sarcasm

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*irony

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The difference between,appearance and reality

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Situational irony

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When an event go against your expectations

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