Fiction Flashcards

1
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Stories or narratives about imaginary persons or events

A

Fiction

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2
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3 Three major subgenres of fiction based on length

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Short story, novella, novel

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3
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4 Oral forms of short fiction

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Fable, Legend, Parable, Tale

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4
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Fiction are also categorized by

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The plot, and Character

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5
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4 subgenres?

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Gothic fiction, historical fiction, nonfiction, romance

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6
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Struggle between opposing forces

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Conflicts

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7
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Imaginary personage who acts, appears, or referred in the story

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Character

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8
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Main character in a literal work

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Protagonist

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9
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A character or a nonhuman force oppose to the protagonist in conflicts

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Antagonist

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10
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Time or place in a fiction, poetry, or drama

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Setting

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11
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distinctive manner of expression

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Style

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12
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An arrangement of an action

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Plot

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13
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The main 5 parts of the plot

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Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion

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14
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Someone who recounts, or tells a story

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Narrator

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15
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When the narrator is a character, it is called…

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Internal narrator

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16
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When the narrator is not a character, it is called…

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External narraor

17
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If a work encourages us to view the narrator’s actions as suspicious, the narrator is called…

A

Unreliable

18
Q

If the narrator says ‘I’ or ‘we,’ the narrator is called…

A

A first-person narrator

19
Q

An uncommon technic and it says ‘you’ in the story. The narrator is called…

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A second-person narrator

20
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If the narrator says ‘he, she, they,’ the narrator is called…

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A third-person narrator

21
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Any sensory detail or evocation in a work

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image/imagery

22
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Intentional deviation from literal statement or common usage

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figures of speech

23
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Person, place, thing, or event that figuratively represents or stands for something else.

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Symbol

24
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Attitude a literally work takes towards its subject

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tone

25
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broadly and commonly, topic explored in a literary work

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theme

26
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section or subdivision of a play or narrative that presents continuous action in one specific setting

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scenes