English - Narratives Flashcards
Critical Reading Test (35 cards)
Vulnerability
uncertainty, risk, or emotional exposure, however, vulnerability is not a weakness yet our most accurate test of courage.
Plot
storyline
Setting
Physical, social place in time (location)
Theme
moral or message
Perspective
way of talking (point of view)
Characters
people in story
Conflict/Climax
problem
Dialogue
talking in story
First person
I, we, or me
Second person
you
Third person
He, she, they, or them
Omniscient
Narrator is all seeing, can share what all characters are thinking (all details).
Unreliable
Narrator may share untrue or misleading accounts of the story.
Fly-on-wall
Narrator is like a fly-on-wall, is objective to information - only share what can be seen from the outside - the facts.
Protagonist
main character (harry)
Antagonist
villain (Voldemort)
confidant
sidekick or best friend (let protagonist be vulnerable) (hermine)
deuteragonist
close to main character but not centered around them (ron)
minor characters
random, useless, populate (nevil)
foil
contrast qualities of protagonist (draco malfoy)
dynamic character
one who changes and evolved throughout story
round character
many layers, not just defined by one character trait
static character
doesn’t change throughout story
stock character
stock standard character - stereotypical character
