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Flashcards by Tejaswi Sriram, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Tejaswi Sriram
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| Question | Answer |
| Plot Structure | Frey Tag's Pyramid CASPAR Plot Exposition Setting Rising Action Climax Falling Action Resolution |
| Frey Tag's Pyramid | A diagram used to organize the plot |
| CASPAR | C- character A- Adjectives S- setting P- plot A- Action R- Resolution |
| Plot | The sequence of events or actions in a Short Story, Novel, Play or Narrative Poem. |
| Exposition | The author lays the groundwork for the story revealing the setting, relationship between characters, and relations among characters before the conflict. |
| Setting | The place where the event takes place |
| Rising Action | The events leading up to the climax |
| Climax | The turning point in a story |
| Falling Action | The events leading to the resolution |
| Resolution | The solution to the problem/ the last event in the story |
| Character | Dynamic Character Static Character Antagonist Protagonist Indirect Characterization Direct Characterization |
| Dynamic Character | A character that undergoes a change in actions or beliefs during the course of a story |
| Static Character | A character that does not grow or change throughout the story and ends as he/she began |
| Antagonist | Against the protagonist; can be a person, idea of force |
| Protagonist | Main character; story revolves around this character |
| Indirect Characterization | The writer reveals a character through the character’s appearance, speech, thoughts, feelings, or actions, and what other characters think and say about this character. |
| Direct Characterization | The writer tells you directly what the character is like |
| Literary Terms | Allusion Dialogue Flashback Foreshadowing Imagery Mood POV Symbolism Theme Tone |
| Allusion | A reference to a LITERARY, MYTHOLOGICAL, BIBLICAL OR HISTORICAL person, place or thing |
| Dialogue | The words said by a character |
| Flashback | Present movement of the story is halted and a scene from the past is relived; readers relive the past moment in the present |
| Foreshadowing | The use in a literary work of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur |
| Imagery | The words or phrases a writer uses to represent persons, objects, actions, feelings, and ideas descriptively by appealing to the five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch) |
| Mood | The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage |
| Point of View-POV | The perspective from which a story is told |
| Symbolism | The usage of a symbol to represent something |
| Theme | A central message or insight into life revealed through the literary work - a lesson about life or people |
| Tone | The writer’s attitude toward his or her subject. Tone can often be described by a single adjective |
| Figurative Language | Alliteration Extended Metaphor Hyperbole Metaphor Onomatopoeia Personification Simile |
| Alliteration | Beginning several consecutive or neighboring words with the same sound |
| Extended Metaphor | A comparison (at some length) of two unlike things not using like or as |
| Hyperbole | A deliberate, extravagant and often outrageous exaggeration; may be used for either serious or comic effect |
| Metaphor | A comparison of two unlike things not using LIKE or AS |
| Onomatopia | The use of words to mimic the sounds they describe |
| Personification | Writing that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics |
| Similie | A comparison of two different things or ideas through the use of words LIKE or AS |
| Conflict | Internal: Man vs. Self External: Man vs. Man Man vs. Nature Man vs. Fate |
| Man vs. Self | When a character must make a decision about a problem or struggle he is having with himself |
| Man vs. Man | When a character has a problem with another character |
| Man vs. Nature | When a character has a problem with a force of nature such as cold, storms, earthquakes, etc |
| Man vs. Fate | When a character has a problem with something he can’t do anything about, such as God, luck, death, etc |
| Narrator's Voice | Understatement Formal Language Conversational Journalistic Poetic |
| Understatement | The opposite of hyperbole – a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is |
| Formal Language | Language where the following aren't present: abbreviations, contractions, shortcuts etc. |
| Conversational | A style where the words are written in the way the character would talk |
| Journalistic | A style where the writing is that of a professional writer or journalist |
| Poetic | A style of writing that gives a poetic meaning or sense to it |
| The Tell-Tale-Heart | Summary Conflict Theme Author |
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