Elements Of Fiction Flashcards

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The individuals whose thoughts and actions make up a story?

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Characters

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The place in which the story takes place?

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Setting

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The central, focal figure in a work of fiction?

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Protagonist

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A character or force have that works against the protagonist, creating obstacles.

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Antagonist

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The arrangement or sequence of events within stories.

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Plot

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The feeling of a literary?

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Mood

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Characters that are fully developed with both positive qualities and flaws?

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Round character

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Characters that under go change during the story?

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Dynamic characters

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Characters that don’t undergo changes in the story?

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Static characters

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Characters that are one dimensional?

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Flat characters

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Methods used by an author to develop a character?

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Characterization

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An obstacle that the protagonist must overcome?

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Conflict

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When the protagonist has a problem with another character?

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Character vs character

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A conflict in which the protagonist has to overcome a problem with his or herself?

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Character vs self

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A problem In which the protagonist has to struggle against a natural disaster?

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Character vs nature

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A conflict when the protagonist faces a problem on society?

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Character vs society

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A problem that the protagonist fears is to far out of reach?

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Character vs fate

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Characters are introduced background information to better understand he story?

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Exposition

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A clue that hints on what will happen later into the story?

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Foreshadowing

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Conflict leading to the climax?

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Rising action

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The turning point of a story?

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The action that follows the climax?

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Falling action

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The conclusion of the story?

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An unexpected resolution of a story?

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Situational irony

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The ideas that weave the characters, setting and events?
Theme
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A second story within the main plot of the story?
Subplot
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What is the repetition of similar sounds at the end of the word.
Rhyme
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What are groups of lines that are linked together, often by thoughts?
Stanza
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What is the pattern at the end of the poem?
Rhyme scheme
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The pattern of unstressed syllables?
Rhythm
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A repeated pattern of unstressed syllables.
Meter
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A pair of rhyming lines In a poem?
Couplet
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A four line poem or stanza?
Quatrain
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The use of words to make an effect?
Figurative language
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A comparison of two things using like or as?
Simile
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A comparison of words without using like or as
Metaphor
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A metaphor that developed over several lines?
Extended metaphor
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The use of a person or thing to represent something?
Symbolism
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The repetition of constant sounds at the beginning of words?
Alliteration
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Unrhymed lambic pentameter.
Blank verse
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Poetry that does not follow a rhyme or rhythm.
Free verse
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Poetry that tells story.
Narrative poetry
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A long narrative poem about a hero
Epic
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A tragic poem and dramatic conclusion
Ballad
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Poetry that focuses on a single reader
Lyric poetry
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Extreme exaggeration
Hyperbole
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When you give an object or animal a human quality
Personification
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The repetition of a constant sound in several words of a line or stanza?
Consonance
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The repetition of a vowel sound in several words of a line or stanza?
Assonance
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A five line poem that is often humorous.
Limerick
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A 14 line rhyming poem.
Sonnet
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A meter in which each unstressed syllables followed by a stress syllable.
Lambic pentameter