Flashcards
English Exam
Cards in this deck (42)
- 1the central/main character in a story, drama, or dramatic poemprotagonist
- 2the relationship of the narrator to the story; his or her vantage pointpoint of view
- 3the central message of a story, poem, novel, or play that readers can apply to lifetheme
- 4a character or force that opposed the protagonist in a story or dramaantagonist
- 5the sequence of events in a narrative workplot
- 6the point of greatest emotional intensity, interest, or suspense in a narrativeclimax
- 7an author's introduction of the characters, setting, and situation at the beginning of a story, novel, or playexposition
- 8unravels the mystery or explains the plot; usually very briefresolution
- 9the part of the plot where complications to the conflict develop and increase reader interestrising action
- 10the action that follows the climax and leads to the conclusion in a play or storyfalling action
- 11a character whose traits contrast or highlight the traits of another character, usually a major characterfoil
- 12exists when a character struggles against some outside forceexternal conflict
- 13a character that primarily remains the samestatic character
- 14exists within the mind of a character who is torn between opposing feelings or goalsinternal conflict
- 15a character that changes during a storydynamic character
- 16occurs in a literary work when the audience has important information that one or more of the characters do not havedramatic irony
- 17occurs when a character says one things and means anotherverbal irony
- 18a feeling of curiosity, uncertainty, or even dread about what is going to happen nextsuspense
- 19occurs when the actual outcome of a situation is the opposite of someone's expectationssituational irony
- 20the environment, including time and place, in which the events of a story, novel, or play occursetting
- 21any object, person, place, experience, idea, or word that stands for something elsesymbol
- 22a reference in a work of literature to a character, place, or situation from another work of literature, history, religion, myth, music, or artallusion
- 23language used for descriptive effect, often to imply ideas indirectly a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlikefigurative language
- 24things using words such as like, as, resembles, or thansimile
- 25writer/speaker's attitude to a subject/audience/charactertone
- 26conflictto come into collision of disagreement
- 27character traita feature exhibited by all individuals and capable of being described
- 28character motivationexplaining why the characters act the way they do
- 29indirect characterizationrevelation of characteristics, feelings, or viewpoints of a character using the actions of that character
- 30direct characterizationwhen the author directly tells you a characters traits
- 31settingthe time and place in which the events happen in a story
- 32externaloutside or out of
- 33sequence of eventsincludes plot, beginning, middle, and end
- 34climaxthe point of greatest emotional intensity
- 35moodemotional state of characters at that time
- 36resolutionunravels the mystery, very brief
- 37narratorthe person telling the story
- 38first personwhen the story is told from the perspective of one of the characters, uses "I" and "me"
- 39second personwhen the story is told as if the narrator were talking to a specific person
- 40third-person limitedwhen the story is told from the perspective of one of the characters, uses "he/she"
- 41third-person omniscientwhen the story is told from the perspective of many different characters
- 42author's tonehow the author wants the book to come across