Vocab Flashcards

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What means the atmosphere or feeling of a literary work?

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Mood

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What means the time and place in which a story takes place?

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Setting

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What means the individual whose throughs and actions make up a story?

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Characters

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What means the central focal figure in work of function?

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Protagonist

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What means a character or force that works against the protagonist?

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Antagonist

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What means characters that are fully developed with both positive qualities and flow?

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Round characters

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What means characters that undergo change over the course of a story as a result of their experience?

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Dynamic characters

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What means characters that do not undergo any change from the story’s inception to its conclusion?

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Static characters

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What means characters that are stereotypical and one dimensional?

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Flat characters

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What means methods used by an author develop a character?

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Characterization

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What means the arrangement or sequence of events within a story?

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Plot

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What means an obstacle struggle or controversy that the protagonist must resolve to overcome?

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Conflict

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What is a conflict in which the protagonist has a problem with anther character?

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Character vs. character

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What is a conflict in which the protagonist must struggle against a harsh environment or natural disaster?

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Characters vs. nature

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What is a conflict in which the protagonist faces a problem with a part or the whole of society?

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Character vs. society

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What is a conflict in which the protagonist is at odds with an internal problem such as fear shyness or or guilt?

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Characters vs. self

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What is a conflict in which the protagonist struggles with a force that seem beyond the characters control?

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Character vs. fate

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What means in fiction the plot normally begins with expositions?

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Exposition

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What means the use of clues early in a story to give hints about events that will happen later

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Foreshadowing

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What means a series events and conflict involving the story’s character that leads to the climax?

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Rising actions

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What means the turning action of a story?

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Climax

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What is the action that follows the climax and leads to the resolution?

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Falling action

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What means the conclusion of the story?

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Resolution

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What means an unexpected twist in the resolution of the story?

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Situational irony

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What means the ideas or idea the weave the character and setting also events together? Life message to the reader?

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Theme

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What means a second story within the main plot of a story?

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Subplot