Types of characters.
Point of view.
Plot
literary devices.
Essential parts of literature.
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What is Protagonist.
The main character involved in the central conflict.
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What is First person.
Narrator or one of characters tells the story using I.
100
What is Climax
The highest point of tension in the plot.
100
What is Alliteration.
Repetition of the first sound--usually a consonant sound--in several words of a sentence of a line of poetry.
100
What is types of characters.
Protagonist, antagonist, foil, flat character, round character, static character, dynamic character.
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The force or person who works against the main character's attempt to solve the problem; may be another character, society, nature, or force within the protagonist.
What is Antagonist
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A narrator or someone outside the story is telling it using he, she, or them.
What is third person.
200
What is Conflict.
A problem that confronts the characters in a piece of literature.
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What is Detail.
A specific piece of a literary work that makes up or adds to a larger picture or story.
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What is mood
The feeling or atmosphere a reader senses while reading a piece of literature.
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What is Foil
A character whose traits are in direct contrast to those of the principal character. The foil typically highlights the traits of the protagonist. The foil is usually a minor character, although if there are two protagonists, they may be foils of each other.
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An all knowing narrator who is not a character in the story and who can report the thoughts and feelings of the characters, as well as their words and actions. ( see also limited omniscience and neutral omniscience. )
What is omniscient narrator.
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What is Exposition.
Occurs at the beginning of a work or fiction; established background info or lays out the scene.
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What is Flashback.
A break in a story's action that returns the reader to a previous event.
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What is plot
Climax, conflict, exposition, falling action, resolution.
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What is Flat character.
One who is not fully developed; we know only one side of the character.
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Point of view: third person
Singular: he/she/it Plural: they
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What is Falling action
( denouement )--the unraveling of the plot following the climax.
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What is hyperbole
Obvious exaggeration used for serious, comic, or ironic effect.
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What is point of view. (POV)
first person, third person, omniscient narrator.
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One who is fully-developed, with many traits--bad and good--shown in the story. We feel that we know the character so well that he or she has become a real person. What is Round character
One who is fully-developed, with many traits--bad and good--shown in the story. We feel that we know the character so well that he or she has become a real person.
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In point of view not first person or third person What is Omniscient narrator.
In point of view not first person or third person
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What is Resolution.
The final part of the plot where you learn how everything works out.
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What is Dialect.
A social or regional variety of a particular language.
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What is Setting.
The physical and social context in which the action of a story occurs. The major elements of setting are the time, the place, and the social environment that frames the characters.
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