Midterm Review

Question 0

Character

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Persons, animal, things, or people that a presented as people

Question 1

Plot

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The sequence of events or happenings in a literary work

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Point of View

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The vantage point from which a narrative is told

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Theme

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The main idea or basic meaning of a literary work

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Setting

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The time, place, and atmosphere of action in a narrative

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Framework Story

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A group of tales held together by the circumstances of the storytellers

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Suspense

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The quality of a literary work that makes the reader or audience uncertian about the events to come

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Foreshadowing

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The use pf hints or clues in a narrative to suggest what action is to come

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Conflict

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A struggle between two opposing forces

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External Conflict

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Man vs. man, man vs. society, man vs. nature, man vs. unknown

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Internal Conflict

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Man vs. himself

Question 11

Exposition

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Background essential to understanding the story; introduction

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Complication

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Series of difficulties forming the central action of the narritive

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Climax

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Point of highest intensity: emotional, interest, or suspense; point that determines outcome of the story

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Resolution

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The outcome that usually settles the conflict(s) and brings storyto satisfactory and logical conclusion

Question 15

Detective Story

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A form of fiction in which a mystery, often murder occurs

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Irony

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The opposite of what is expected

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Situational Irony

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When what happens in a particular situation is the opposite of what is expected

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Dramatic Irony

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When the reader or listener has information that is not known by the character involved

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Verbal Irony

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When speakers or writers say the opposite or what they mean

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Tone

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Attitude the author takes toward his/her story’s subject, character, and the actual reader

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Tragic-comic

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Combines sadness in a humorous way

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Static Character

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A character that stays the same throughout the story

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Denotation

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The literal or dictionary meaning of a word

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Connotation

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The emotion or association that a word or phrase may arouse

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Flat Character

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Character has only one or two traits

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Dynamic Character

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Character that changes throughout the story

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Simile

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Comparing two unlike things using like or as

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Metaphor

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Comparing two things without the use of like or as

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Dialogue

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A literary composition in the form of conversation between two people

Question 30

Figurative Language

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Language that can not be taken literally

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Objective POV

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Point of view from which we know none of the characters thoughts or feelings

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Omniscient POV

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Point of view from which we see all characters thoughts and feelings

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First Person POV

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Point of view from which the narrator is in the story

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Limited Omniscient POV

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Point of view from which we know one or two characters thoughts and feelings

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Objective

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Undistorted by emotion or personal bias

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Subjective

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Taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias

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Narrator

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Someone who tells a story

Question 38

Novel

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Story told by a narrator

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Science Fiction

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A story that is not true but deals with science

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Utopia

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A society that is perfect with no flass

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Flasback

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Going into the past

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Direct Characterization

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Method in which the narrator directly tells you what the character is like

Question 43

Indirect Characterization

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Method by which the writer shows or dramatizes a character and allows you to draw your own conclusion

Question 44

Jargon

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A special language of a group of people, especially people in the same job

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Prose

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All other writing besides poetry

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Fiction

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A story about something that is not trie

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Implicit Theme

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A theme that is not stated but you must dig to find it

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Explicit Theme

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A theme that is directly stated in a story

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Critical Analysis

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An appraisal based on careful analytical evaluation

Question 50

Literal Language

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Language that is meant to be taken literally

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Thesis

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A statement used to tell what something is about

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Round Character

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A character with many traits and qualities

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Symbol

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An object, person, place, thing, or idea that has meaning in itself, but also stands for something biggerthan itself

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Minor Character

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A character that may only be in a story for a short period of time

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Escape Literature

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Exists for our pleasure, to entertain us by taking us away from everyday life

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Single Effect

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All the elements of fiction work together to create one mood

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Dialect

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The usage of vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people

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Dystopia

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A society that is the opposite of an utopia with many flaws

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Chronological Order

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The sequence of events in which a story happens

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Universality

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State of being universal, a truth the world over

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Anonymity

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State of being nameless or unidentifiable

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Mood

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A feeling the reader has or recieves about the subject of the story