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Narrative Structure/Literary Elements Study Cards
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- 1help the reader relate to and connect with the story.character
- 2the leading character who is often a hero. (Usually the good guy)protagonist
- 3causes all the trouble for the protagonist. (Usually the bad guy)antagonist
- 4A struggle between opposing forcesconflict
- 5a conflict that takes place inside of someone's mind.internal conflict
- 6A struggle between a character and an outside forceexternal conflict
- 7the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a charactercharacterization
- 8when the author shows the reader the personality of a character. This can be shown in the following ways: by what the character says, thinks, effect on others, how they act, and what they look likeindirect characterization
- 9Author directly describes characterdirect characterization
- 10The AUTHOR'S or NARRATOR'S attitude towards the audience, the story, or characters.tone
- 11How the reader feels about the text while reading.mood
- 12Sequence of events in a storyplot
- 13Contains all of the plot elements in chronological orderlinear plot
- 14the plot is interrupted to go back in time to a memoryflashback
- 15A part of the plot that jumps ahead in time and returns to the presentflashforward
- 16when the story starts from the mid-point rather than the beginning. The story usually opens with a dramatic action.in medias res
- 17The time and place of a storysetting
- 18the perspective from which a story is toldpoint of view
- 19a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself. You will see pronouns like, I, me, and myfirst person point of view
- 20the narrator is not a character in the story. You will see pronouns like, she, he, they them, him, her, etc.third person point of view
- 21Central idea of a work of literaturetheme
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