Plot Flashcards

(14 cards)

1
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Five elements of fiction

A

Plot,P.O.V,characters,setting,theme

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2
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Exposition

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Introduce characters and describe the setting

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3
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Rising action

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Complications/obstacles

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4
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Conflict

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Problem that drives the plot, 5 types of conflicts person vs. person,person vs. society,person vs. nature,person vs. self,person vs. technology

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5
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Climax

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The high point of interest/suspense

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6
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Falling action

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Comes after climax

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7
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Resolution

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Conflict is resolved

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8
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Chronological order

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Tells events in the order in which they occurred

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9
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Flashback

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Interrupts what’s happening and looks at the past

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10
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Forshadowing

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Clues about what’s going to happen

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11
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Idiom

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Expression that can’t be understood from the meanings of its separate words but must be learned as a whole

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12
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Metaphor

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Figure of speech in which one thing is spoken or written of as if it were another

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13
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Simile

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A figure of such that uses like or as to make a comparison

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14
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Analogy

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Comparison of two things that are alike in come ways but otherwise quite different

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