Elements of Fiction
Inferences, Author's Purpose & Context Clues
Character Classifications
Literary Elements
Poetry Terminology
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What is THEME?
a theme is the central topic a text treats
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Read: Growing up in Birmingham in the 1950s, Earnestine Thomas knew the rules of this segregated city. At a restaurant, she could pay in the front, but had to walk around the back to get her food from a cook. She could shop only in certain places; there were neighborhoods that she knew not to visit. Based on this passage, what inferences can we make about race relations in the 1950s south? Use a part of the passage to support your answer.
Racist Segregated Unfair Discriminatory
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What is the PROTAGONIST?
A protagonist is the main character (the central or primary personal figure) of a literary, theatrical, cinematic, or musical narrative, who ends up in conflict because of the antagonist. The audience is intended to most identify with the protagonist.
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What is the THIRD PERSON POINT OF VIEW- OMNISCIENT?
Third person omniscient is a point of view in which the writer masterfully switches from one character’s point of view to another’s. Using this technique allows you to provide information to your readers that they wouldn’t get if you used another point of view technique, because your narrator knows and sees everything and can move from character to character (ie: "God view").
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What is Rhythm?
rhythm, in poetry, the patterned recurrence, within a certain range of regularity, of specific language features, usually features of sound. Although difficult to define, rhythm is readily discriminated by the ear and the mind, having as it does a physiological basis. It is universally agreed to involve qualities of movement, repetition, and pattern and to arise from the poem’s nature as a temporal structure. Rhythm, by any definition, is essential to poetry; prose may be said to exhibit rhythm but in a much less highly organized sense. The presence of rhythmic patterns heightens emotional response and often affords the reader a sense of balance.
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What is SETTING?
setting includes the historical moment in time and geographic location in which a story takes place, and helps initiate the main backdrop and mood for a story. Elements of setting may include culture, historical period, geography, and hour. Along with the plot, character, theme, and style, setting is considered one of the fundamental components of fiction
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CONTEXT CLUES: Segregation in Birmingham permeated everything, down to the Bibles that judges used to swear witnesses in -- there was one holy book for white witnesses and another for black witnesses. Based on the sentence above, what does the word PERMEATED mean?
Spread throughout (something); everywhere.
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What is an antagonist?
An antagonist is a character, group of characters, or institution, that represents the opposition against which the protagonist must contend. In other words, an antagonist is a person or a group of people who oppose the main character(s). In the classic style of stories wherein the action consists of a hero fighting a villain/enemy, the two can be regarded as protagonist and antagonist, respectively. The antagonist may also represent a major threat or obstacle to the main character by their very existence, without necessarily deliberately targeting him or her.
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What is an ALLUSION?
An allusion is a figure of speech that makes a reference to, or a representation of, people, places, events, literary work, myths, or works of art, either directly or by implication.
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What is ASSONANCE?
Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences, and together with alliteration and consonance[1] serves as one of the building blocks of verse. For example, in the phrase "Do you like blue?", the /uː/ ("o"/"ou"/"ue" sound) is repeated within the sentence and is assonant.
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What are the five elements of plot- in order?
Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution.
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AUTHORS PURPOSE: An article about what life was like for Jews during WWII.
Author's purpose is to inform.
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What is a STATIC CHARACTER?
a literary or dramatic character who undergoes little or no inner change; a character who does not grow or develop.
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What is the THIRD PERSON LIMITED POINT OF VIEW?
Third person limited point of view is a method of storytelling in which the narrator knows only the thoughts and feelings of a single character, while other characters are presented only externally. Third person limited grants a writer more freedom than first person, but less than third person omniscient.
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What is ONOMATOPOEIA?
An onomatopoeia (sometimes written as onomatopœia) is a word that phonetically imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes. Onomatopoeia (as an uncountable noun) refers to the property of such words. Common occurrences of onomatopoeias include animal noises such as "oink", "meow", "roar" or "chirp".
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What is the FIRST PERSON POINT OF VIEW?
First-person narrative is a mode where a story is narrated by one character at a time, speaking for and about themselves. First-person narrative may be singular, plural or multiple as well as being an authoritative, reliable or deceptive "voice" and represents point of view in the writing. The narrators explicitly refer to themselves using words and phrases involving "I" (referred to as the first-person singular) and/or "we" (the first-person plural). This allows the reader or audience to see the point of view (including opinions, thoughts, and feelings) only of the narrator, and no other characters. In some stories, first-person narrators may refer to information they have heard from the other characters, in order to try to deliver a larger point of view. Other stories may switch from one narrator to another, allowing the reader or audience to experience the thoughts and feelings of more than one character.
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AUTHORS PURPOSE: A comic book.
Author's purpose- Entertain.
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What is a dynamic character?
a literary or dramatic character who undergoes an important inner change, as a change in personality or attitude (ex: Ebeneezer Scrooge is a dynamic character).
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What is HYPERBOLE?
Hyperbole is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. It may be used to evoke strong feelings or to create a strong impression, but is not meant to be taken literally. It is used to create emphasis.
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What is ALLITERATION?
In language, alliteration is the repetition of a particular sound in the prominent lifts (or stressed syllables) of a series of words or phrases. Alliteration has developed largely through poetry, in which it more narrowly refers to the repetition of a consonant in any syllables that, according to the poem's meter, are stressed[citation needed], as in James Thomson's verse "Come…dragging the lazy languid Line along". Another example is Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers.
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What are the four basic types of conflict?
Man vs. Self: Man vs. Man: Man vs. Society: Man vs. Nature:
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AUTHORS PURPOSE: A documentary about how fast food is making Americans fatter than ever- and fast food should be avoided at all costs.
Purpose- persuade.
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What are FLAT and ROUND CHARACTERS?
A flat character is a minor character in a work of fiction who does not undergo substantial change or growth in the course of a story. Also referred to as "two-dimensional characters" or "static characters," flat characters play a supporting role to the main character, who as a rule should be round. A round character is a major character in a work of fiction who encounters conflict and is changed by it. Round characters tend to be more fully developed and described than flat, or static, characters. If you think of the characters you most love in fiction, they probably seem as real to you as people you know in real life. This is a good sign that they are round characters.
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What is IRONY?
Irony in its broadest sense, is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or event characterized by an incongruity, or contrast, between reality (what is) and appearance (what seems to be). The term may be further defined into several categories, among which are: verbal, dramatic, and situational. Verbal Irony[2] is an incongruity between what is said and what is meant. The discordance of verbal irony may be deliberately created as a means of communication (as in art or rhetoric). Dramatic Irony is an incongruity between what a character in a work of fiction believes to be true and what the audience knows to be true. Dramatic irony communicated the importance of a particular truth by portraying a person who is strikingly unaware of it, emphasizing a perceived truth. Situational Irony is an "incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal, [intended], or expected result."[3] Descriptions or depictions of situational irony, whether in fiction or in non-fiction, serve the communicative function of sharpening or highlighting certain discordant features of reality. Verbal, dramatic, and situational irony are often used for emphasis in the assertion of a truth. The ironic form of simile, used in sarcasm, and some forms of litotes emphasize one's meaning by the deliberate use of language which states the opposite of the truth — or drastically and obviously understates a factual connection.
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What's the difference between simile and metaphor?
A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two things through some connective, usually "like," "as," "than," or a verb such as "resembles." A simile differs from a metaphor in that the latter compares two unlike things by saying that the one thing is the other thing
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