Narrative terms Flashcards

(20 cards)

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Characters

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People, Animals or imaginary creatures that take part in the story

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Main characters

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Character that the story centers around

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Antagonist

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Forse that works against the hero of the story, often a villan type, (Iago, Sykess, homer Barron)

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Protagonist

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Main character in the story, orfen good or heroic

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Minor characters

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interact with main character and one another

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conflict

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a problem or struggleInvolving 2 or more opossing source

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Setting

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time and plce of the action of the story.

Cyprus and venice, florida, Small town

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Exposition

…introdu

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Part of the story, near the beginning in which the characters are introduced.
background explain and setting described

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Plot

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Sequence of events in a story, built around a conflict

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Rising action

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Central part of the story during which various problems arise and suspence build

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Climax

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The point of greatest interest or suspense in the action of the story, the TURNING POINT

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Falling action

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Action and dialoge following the climax that led the reader into the story’s end

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Resolution

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Part of the story in which loose ends are tied up and the action comes to a satisfying end

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Theme

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The main message in a story; THE LESSON

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12
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POINT OF VIEW

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the angle from which a story is told.

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13
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Narrator

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person who tells the story

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1 perosn POV

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when character in story is the narrator.

USES I, WE.

A ROSE FOR EMILY

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2 person POV

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NARRATOR directly addesses the reader

USES YOU

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3 person POV

has 2

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Outside of the story us the narrator

OMNICIENT- DRAMATIC