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| Introduces the characters, setting, and usually the story's main conflict. |
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| The part of the story or movie that makes you want to continue reading or watching. |
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| Main character in fiction, drama, or narrative poetry. |
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| The character that blocks the main character's progress. |
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| A struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces, or emotions |
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A struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces, or emotions
External:
- Person vs person
- Person vs Nature
- Person vs Society
Internal:
- Person vs opposing needs
- Person vs desires
- Emotions within 1 character
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| all problems or conflicts resolved or unraveled; when the plot comes to an end. |
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| Time and place a story takes place |
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| hints or clues to indicate events and situations that will occur later in the plot. (Used to create suspense) |
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the vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Omniscient:
- the person telling the story knows everything going on in the story. The person is outside the story, a godlike observer.
First Person:
- the narrator is a character in the story. Uses the pronoun "I". We hear and see only what the narrator hears and sees
Third Person:
- narrator is outside the story, but tells the story from vantage point of only one character. Cannot tell what others are thinking except by observation.
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the central idea or insight of a work of literature. The idea the author wishes to convey about the topic at hand.
* Not always the same as the subject or morale* |
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| the attitude a writer takes toward the reader, a subject, or character |
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| A person, place thing, or even event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself |
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| part of book that interrupts the present action of the plot and "flashes backwards" and tells what happened at an earlier time. |
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the feeling or atmosphere that the writer creates for the reader.
Seen through setting, words, and figurative language |
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an individual in a story or play. Always has human characteristics.
-Static: one who does not change much in the story
-Dynamic: changes in some significant way as a result of the story's action
-Flat: have only one or two personality traits
-Round: more dimensions to their personality. -They are complex, solid, and multi faced like real people |
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