Creative Writing Flashcards
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the art of making things up; leads to the artistic phenomenon of creating things; uses language in imaginative and bold ways.
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Creative Writing
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derived from your imaginations
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Fictional
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reality
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Non-Fictional
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refers to the oral, written, auditory, and visual language proficiency required to
learn effectively in schools and academic programs;
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Academic Language
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Informal, Personal, Use of slang, and Repetitive
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Social Language
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structured and backed up by evidence.
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Academic Writing
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Three purposes of academic writing?
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- To inform
- To argue a specific point
- To persuade
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is a reading material that provides information which includes concepts and theories
that are related to the specific discipline.
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Academic Text
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these can be technical reports like research reports, laboratory reports, feasibility
reports, case study reports, etc.
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Informative Text
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to convince the reader to agree with the author’s perspective about the issue.
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Persuasive Text
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purpose of these texts is to elicit a response that matches the author’s own or to
affect the reader, invoking feelings of rejection or sympathy for the subject matter.
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Argumentative Text
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8 things that academic writing has
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- Topic
- Purpose
- Audience
- Experts
- Semi Experts
- Non Experts
- Point of View
- Tone
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4 Reading Strategies for Academic Texts
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- Preview
- Read
- Summarize
- Review
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refers to the form or style of expression in words
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Language
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use of the actual meaning of words and phrases in their exact sense.
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Literal Language
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deviates from the conventional order and meaning in
order to convey a complicated meaning.
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Figurative Language
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engages the reader’s interest; also called as mental pictures
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Sensory Details
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descriptive language to create mental images
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Imagery
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sense of sight
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Visual Imagery
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sense of hearing
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Auditory Imagery
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sense of smell
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Olfactory Imagery
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sense of taste
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Gustatory Imagery
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sense of touch
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Tactile Imagery
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technique used in various kinds of texts to allow the reader to experience the story through senses.
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Show don’t tell
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decision you make will determine the success of your writing.
Making Choices
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sensory details draw readers into the world of literature, so use imagery whenever you
want readers to see, smell, hear, taste, or touch elements of your literary piece.
Applications
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any technique used to help the author achieve his or her purpose
Literary Devices
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uses the same sounds at the beginning of words in a sentence or title
Ex.
Purple potions perform positively.
Alliteration
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references a person, place, thing, or event in the real world.
Ex.
Is there an Einstein in your class?
Allusion
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refers to the identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels
in neighboring words.
Ex.
“I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless.”
Assonance
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deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect.
Ex.
I’m not afraid to die. I’m not afraid to live. I’m not afraid to fail. I’m not afraid to succeed. I’m not afraid to fall in love. I’m not afraid to be alone. I’m just afraid I might have to stop talking about myself
for five minutes.
Anaphora
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form of wordplay that allows the writer to infuse mystery and a little interactive fun in the
writing so that the reader can decipher the actual word on their own
Ex.
Mother-in-law = Hitler Woman
Anagram
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style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by speaker or a writer.
Diction
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used in formal situations such as press conferences, presentations etc.
Formal Diction
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when your characters are speaking directly to everyday people.
Informal Diction
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commonly used for a younger audience and includes newly coined words or phrases.
Slang Diction
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when words that are used in everyday life are written.
Colloquial Diction
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word or phrase that possesses a separate meaning from its literal definition.
Figures of Speech
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comparing two things using the word “like” or “as”.
Ex.
Your voice is like music to my ears.
Simile
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uses the direct comparison of two, unlike things or ideas. Doesn't use "as" or "like"
Ex.
He is a tiger when he fights.
Metaphor
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gives human traits to inanimate objects or ideas.
Ex.
The tree is dancing
Personification
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a direct address to someone absent, dead, or inanimate.
Ex.
Seven, you are my lucky number!
Apostrophe
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substitutes a word that closely relates to a person or a thing.
Ex.
Lend me your ear
Metonymy
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uses a part to represent a whole.
Ex.
Jacob has got some new wheel after earning money in just a month.
Synecdoche
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makes use of exaggeration for emphasis and effect.
Ex.
I will give you the whole world.
Hyperbole
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a contrast between what is said and what is meant.
Ex.
“What a pleasant day!” but it is raining heavily.
Irony
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involves a contrast of words or ideas.
Ex.
Speech is silver but silence is gold.
Antithesis
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uses a phrase or statement that on the surface seems contradictor but makes some kind of emotional sense.
Ex.
My weakness is my strength
Paradox
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makes a deliberate understatement used to affirm by negating its opposite.
Ex.
I cannot disagree with your point of view.
Litotes
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putting two contradictory terms in one statement.
Ex.
Beautiful disaster
Oxymoron
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word that sounds like what it means. Focuses on sounds
Ex.
Bang of the drum
Onomatopoeia
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considered the oldest form of literature; attempts to recreate emotions and experiences in a specific form.
Poetry
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According to this person, painting is silent poetry (creation), and poetry is painting that speaks—the observer of the painting receives the message of the act based on its individual criteria, his/ her personal experience and knowledge.
Plutarch
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poetry language arranged in
Lines or verses
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central idea or message in a poem
Theme
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attitude a writer takes toward the subject.
Tone
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what the work is about
Subject
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group of lines that form a unit of poetry.
Stanza
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two - line stanza
Couplet
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three-line stanza
Tercet
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four-line stanza
Quatrains
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five-line stanza
Quintet
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six-line stanza
Sester
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seven-line stanza
Septet
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eight-line stanza
Octave
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nine-line stanza
Spenserian
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use of figures of speech that create sounds and melody
Sound
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refers to the **pattern** or beat of stressed and unstressed syllable in a line of poetry.
Rhythm
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a language that communicates ideas beyond the literal
meanings.
Figurative Language
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**character taken
on** by a poet to speak in a first-person poem.
Persona
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Means mask or character
Persona
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poetic form that adheres to a definite verse structure or set of characteristics; fixed rhyme and metrical pattern all throughout the poem are strictly observed
Conventional or Tradition Poetry
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reiteration of a **regular rhythmic unit** in a line of poetry
Meter
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Each unit of meters
is known as _____
Foot
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1 unstressed + 1 stressed
Lambic
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1 stressed + 1 unstressed
Trochaic
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1 stressed + 1 stressed
Spondaic
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2 unstressed + 1 stressed
Anapestic
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1 stressed + 2 unstressed
Dactylic
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One foot
Monometer
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Two feet
Dimeter
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Three feet
Trimeter
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Four feet
Tetrameter
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Five feet
Pentameter
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Six feet
Hexameter
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Seven feet
Heptameter
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Eight feet
Octometer
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repetition of similar sounding words usually at the end of lines in poem.
Rhyme
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Rhymes that occur at
the end of lines of poetry is called
End rhyme
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The pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem
is called
Rhyme Scheme
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ancient form of Japanese poetry; follows a syllabic pattern of 5-7-5, respectively, with nature as its traditional subject.
Haiku
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is recognized as Japanese haiku master.
Matsuo Bashō
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poetic form which originated in Italy, consisting of 14 lines that traditionally follows a strict
rhyme scheme and specific structure, with love as its subject.
Sonnet
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traditionally written from the point of a man longing for a woman to return
his love.
Petrarchan Sonnet
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also known as English sonnet. It consists of 14 lines divided into three four lines (quatrain), and the final two lines (couplet).
Shakespearean Sonnet
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indigenous type of Filipino poem consisting of four lines with each line consisting of seven syllables
Tanaga
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does not follow or contain regular patterns of rhyme and meter.
Free Verse
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is placed where a **natural
pause** occurs within a line
Line Breaks
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**the continuation** of a sentence or clause over a line-break.
Enjambment
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explores and emphasizes innovation in writing poetry.
Experimental Poetry
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referred to as ‘Concrete Poetry’, is a type of poetry written in such a way that the lines
form a pattern, usually related to the subject matter.
Visual Poetry
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type of art that involves the creative arrangement of texts.
Typography
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type of visual poetry expresses poems, from the name itself, in the shape of an altar.
Altar Poetry
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a poem that is shaped like the thing it describes.
Shape Poetry
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variation of concrete poetry where the first letter of each stanza spells out the title of
the poem or any significant word such as name.
Acrostic Poetry
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author’s use of descriptive and vivid language in such a way that it appeals to the reader’s physical senses
Imagery
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use of the same keyword or phrase throughout the poem.
Repetition
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phrase, line, or group of lines repeated at intervals throughout a poem,
Refrain
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use of a word or image that **signifies** something else other than what it literally represents.
Symbolism
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attracts a broad audience and may also fall into any subgenre,
Commercial Fiction
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stories are about a romantic relationship between two people.
Romance
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genre incorporates any story set in the future, the past, or other dimensions.
Science Fiction
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character in jeopardy dominates these stories.
Suspense/Thriller
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story that puts the protagonist in physical danger, characterized by thrilling near misses, and courageous and daring feats, belongs to this genre.
Action Adventure
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specifically set in the old American West.
Westerns
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high-pitched scary stories involving pursuit and escape. The protagonist must overcome supernatural or demonic beings.
Horror/Paranormal/Ghost
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tends to appeal to a smaller, more intellectually adventurous audience.
Literary Fiction
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fiction, or untrue, story. A story that has believable events and characteristics that could actually happen in real life.
Realistic Fiction
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mix of fiction and historical facts. Based on historical events, but the story is
mostly untrue
Historical Fiction
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the story couldn’t happen in real life. Typically involves magic or supernatural powers
Fantasy
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fiction story based on a mysterious event or a crime
Mysteries
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stories that are typically passed down from generation
Traditional Literature
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these stories typically have a theme of good vs. evil and typically have a happy
ending
Fairytales
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these short stories often have animals as characters and teach a moral, or lesson
Fables
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these stories often exaggerate characteristics of a person that makes them notable
Legends
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similar to comic books in that they use art, and text, in sequence to tell a story
Graphic Novels
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atmosphere of a piece of writing; it’s the emotions a selection arouses in a reader.
Mood
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art of layering clues to build tension.
Foreshadowing
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defined as any recurring image, object, idea, or element within a particular work.
Motif
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The key difference to note between motifs and symbols is the element of
Repetition
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refers to a textual representation of a human being (or occasionally another creature).
Character
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is the central agent in generating
Protagonist
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is the character or force in conflict with the protagonist.
Antagonist
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is a complex, fully developed character, often prone to change.
Round Character
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is a one-dimensional character, typically not central to the story. They have only one or two personality traits.
Flat Character
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undergo some type of change or development in the story.
Dynamic Characters
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do not change in the course of the story.
Static Characters
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how the character acts or behaves throughout the story.
Action
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what types of clothes the character wears. His/her hygiene.
Appearance
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what the character says and how the character says it.
Dialogue
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by what the character thinks and feels.
Thoughts and Reaction
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types of personal relationships, such as friends and acquaintances the character has.
Relationships
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angle or perspective from which the story is told.
Point of View
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the very heart of the story may lie in the difference between what the narrator
perceives and what the reader perceives.
First Person
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author or narrator tells the story, using the third person; knows all and is free to tell us anything
Third Person Omniscient
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limits her/himself to a complete knowledge of one character in the story and tells us only what
that one-character thinks, feels, sees, or hears
Third Person Limited
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author disappears into a kind of roving sound camera that can go anywhere but can record only what is seen or heard; the author is not there to explain
Third Person Objective
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structure of the action of a story.
Plot
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setting the scene. The writer introduces the characters and setting,
Exposition
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something happens to begin the action.
Inciting Incident
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the story builds and gets more exciting.
Rising Action
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the moment of greatest tension in a story.
Climax
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events happen as a result of the climax and we know that the story will soon end.
Falling Action
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the character solves the main problem/conflict or someone solves it for him or her.
Resolution
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the ending. At this point, any remaining secrets, questions or mysteries which remain after the resolution are solved by the characters or explained by the author.
Dénouement
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are specific place, time period, and weather and time of day in which the story takes place.
Setting
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refers to the surrounding mood, generally established through setting.
Atmosphere
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this relates to broad categories such as a country, state, region, city, and town.
Locale
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richly evocative and influential in fiction.
Time of Year
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the minutes, hours, days, weeks, and months a story encompasses.
Elapsed Time
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linked to the geography and topography of a place
Climate
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this refers to specific aspects of water, landforms, ecosystems, and topography in your setting.
Geography
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important events, wars, or historical periods linked to the plot.
Eras of Historical Importance
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inherent incompatibility or struggle between the goals of two or more characters or forces.
Conflict
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this type of conflict occurs when a character finds themselves pitted against the
forces of nature.
Person vs. Nature
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this type of conflict occurs when one-character struggles with another character.
Person vs. Person
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this type of conflict occurs when a character disagrees with societal values, laws,
or beliefs.
Person vs. Society
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this type of conflict
involves a character who faces an inner struggle.
Person vs. Himself/Herself
