Vocab

Question 1

Plot

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several basic events that form a whole narrative

Question 2

Narrative

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A story

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Conflicts

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Problems created by events or people

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Exposition

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Beginning of a narrative

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Rising action

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Conflict starts and becomes clear

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Climax

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Tension peaks; Turning point

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Suspense

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A feeling of anxiousness of what may happen

Question 8

Comedy

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A funny thing

Question 9

Tragedy

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Something bad or sad that happens

Question 10

Falling action

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The effects of what happened at the climax of the narrative

Question 11

Denouement

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Explains how conflict is resolved

Question 12

Resolution

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Conflict is resolved

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In medias res

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In the middle of the action

Question 14

Flashbacks

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Explains what happens prior to a story

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Foreshadowing

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Hints at events to come

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Protagonist

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The main character in a work; often a hero or heroine, but not always

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Antagonist

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Evil character or villain of the story

Question 18

Coming of age story

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A novel that explores the maturation of the protagonist, with the narrative usually moving the main character from childhood into adulthood. also called a coming-of-age-story

Question 19

Epiphany

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An intuitive grasp of reality through something usually simple and striking

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Round character

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A character who exhibits a range of emotions and who evolves over the course of the story

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Flat character

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A character embodying only one or two traits and who lacks character development

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Foil

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A contrasting character who allows the protagonist to stand out more distinctly

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Stock characters

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A character that immediately falls into a category or stereotype

Question 24

Direct characterization

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A narrator tells the reader who a character is by describing the background , motivation, temperament, or appearance of a character

Question 25

Indirect characterization

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An author shows rather than tells us what a character is like through what the character says, does, or thinks or through what others say about the character

Question 26

Second person point of view

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Though rare, some stories are told using second-person pronouns (you). This casts the reader as a character in the story

Question 27

First person point of vew

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Told by a narrator who is a character in the story and who refers to him or herself as “I”

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Third person point of view

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he she or they, narrator talks about everyone

Question 29

Third person omniscient

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Told by a narrator who relates the action using third person pronouns (he, she, it)

Question 30

Limited omniscient narrators

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Only knows how one character thinks and feels

Question 31

Allegory

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A literary work that portrays abstract ideas concretely. Characters in an allegory are frequently personifications of abstract ideas and are given names that refer to these ideas

Question 32

Archetypes

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Typical example of certain person or thing

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Themes

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The subject of a talk, a piece of writing

Question 34

Omniscient

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Knows what every character thinks and feels