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What is plot?

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The framework or plan of action of the story; the sequence of events of which a story is composed.

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What is the protagonist?

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The central character in the story.

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What is the antagonist?

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The forces acting against the protagonist-may be persons, things, conversations, or traits of his own ideas.

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What is conflict?

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A clash of actions, desires, ideas or wills.

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What are the four types of conflict?

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  • man vs man
  • man vs self
  • man vs environment
  • man vs out side self (spirit, emotion)
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What is change?

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The occurrence of an event for no apparent cause

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What is coincidence?

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The occurrence of two events that have a highly unusual and unlikely correspondence.

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What is artistic unity?

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The selection of only relevant details and the arrangement of these details in an effective, logical order.

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What is Plot manipulation?

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The author gives the story a turn unjustified by the characters or events in the story.

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What is setting?

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Time and place

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What is mood?

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The predominating atmosphere or tone

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Flat character?

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Has only one or two distinct traits, ideas, or qualities

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What is a round character?

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Is complex and multi-faceted; has many traits and is more fully developed.

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What is a dynamic character?

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Undergoes a permanent change in some aspect of their character, outlook, or personality

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What is a static character?

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Remains the same throughout the story

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What is a character foil?

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Two characters who contrast strongly so that the traits of each emphasize by contrast the traits of the other.

17
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Character are revealed by..

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Action. Their chosen environment(occupations and companions)
Speech and dialogue. Description (physical appearance)
Reactions of others towards the character Thought

18
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What is theme?

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What the author is trying to reveal about life in general

19
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Omniscient

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The author know all and sees all; can go anywhere and interpret or comment on any characters thoughts, actions, or statements ; told in the third person

20
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Limited omniscient

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The author is restricted to one chosen character; they can go in and out of this character but their knowledge of other characters is limited to what the chosen character know or infers; told in the third person

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First person

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The author or a character narrates the story, using first person; narratermat be the central character or a minor character who either observes or participates in the action (no direct interpretation by the author) bias.

22
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What is objective?

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The author reads only what is seen and heard (no direct analysis or interpretation and no insight into characters inner most thoughts and feelings); relies heavily on external action and dialogue (movie camera)

23
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What are the principles of theme?

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  • express in complete sentence form with a subject and a predicate.
  • can be expressed in more than one way
  • must be a generalization about life, but not too broad.
  • must be supported and justified by the story.
  • must account for all relevant details and not be contradicted.
  • should not be a chichè ( don’t judge a book by its cover)
  • when writing an essay about a prose work, be sure to ALWAYS state the theme, whether the essay question asks for it or not. It is an unstated rule that the theme of a work, or how an aspect of the work relates to its theme. Will be discussed in every essay written about it.
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What is a symbol?

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A symbol is something that stands for something else; a concrete image that calls to mind a complex idea. A symbol can always be related to the them of the work.

25
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What is politics, race and language?

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Often conflict results from an urge to exert power over another people, sometimes based on upon notions of racial or cultural or sexual superiority. Literature may record such events or embody or challenge attitudes of a time.

26
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What is journeys ?

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A common metaphor for the life of a human being is that of a journey, perhaped toward heaven or hell, towards home or away from home twentieth century writers often examine humanity’s for identify, a new sense of values of achievement or heroism

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What innocence to experience?

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A recurrent theme is that of growing up, of learning about the world, of moving from a state of innocence to a state of experience. A coming of age story is often called an “initiation” story. Ceremonies, rituals, or other”rites of passage” may remarks changes.

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What is Women and men?

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Literary works often examine the relations between the sexes, especially the domination and victimization of women by men. The myth of the male experience may focus on heroism and freedom, whereas female experience may focus on creativity, purity, or susceptibility to male attack.

29
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What is tone?

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The authors attitude, his relationship to his material or to his material or to his audience or both

30
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What does DIDLS stand for?

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Diction- the importance of the individual words the poet uses
Images- the word pictures created be a group by a group of words.
Details- often confused with images, these Are more precisely FACTS and are notable not only for what is included but what is included but what is purposely omitted.
Language- this term describes the characteristics of the body of words used. Terms like slang, scholarly, and jargon denote language
Sentence structure- expressed in its most elemental form, this notes that short sentences are emotional and long sentence are more reasonable or even scholarly.

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What is human nature and human condition?

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Related topics include the debate over;
free will and determination,
the necessity or desirability of independence
A spence of alienation, isolation, and loneliness

32
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Water is what image?

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A) the sea: mother of all life; spiritual mystery and infinity;earth and rebirth; timelessness and eternity; the unconscious
B) rivers: baptism; flowing of time; transitional phases of the life cycle

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What image is colours?

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A) black: darkness; chaos, death, the unconscious, evil, melancholy
B) red: blood, sacrifice, violent passion, disorder
C) Green: growth, sensation, hope

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What is the image circle?

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Whole ness;unity;god as infinite; life in pre-moral form;union of consciousness and unconsciousness- ying yang

35
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Wind?

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Inspiration, conception, soul or spirit

36
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Ship?m

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Microcosm, mankinds voyage through space and time

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Garden?

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Paradise, innocent, unspoiled beauty, fertility

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Desert?

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Spiritual aridity, death, nihilism, or hopelessness

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