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What is conflict?
Conflict is any struggle that characters must overcome to achieve their goal.
Idenitify 5 typs of conflict
Character vs. character
Character vs. fate
Character vs. society
Character vs. supernatural
Character vs. nature
What is atmospehre?
The way a place or setting makes you (the reader) feel based on its description.
What is setting?
The time and place a story takes place
What is the difference between a dynamic and a static character?
A round character undergoes development throughout the story, a flat chacater stays the same from start to finish.
What is dialogue? How can it affect a story?
The conversation/words exchanged between charcters. It gives us insight into th characters (personalities, background, etc).
Identify all of the elements on a plot diagram
Introduction/exposition
Inciting incident
Rising action
Climax
Falling Action
Resolution
What is suspense? What is its purpose?
The intense feeling that an audience goes through while waiting for the outcome of certain events. It makes the reader want to read more, without it the reader could lose interest.
What is tone? How does it differ from mood?
Tone is how the author feels about the ideas he/she presents in the story. Mood is how WE feel as the reader as we read the story.
What are two types of narration?
A “reliable narrator” is defined as someone who is accurate and impartial, so by contrast, an "unreliable narrator" is untrustworthy.
What is a character foil? Example?
A character that exhibits opposite or conflicting traits to another character
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What is a flashback?
For BONUS points, what are the two types?
A flashback is a scene that takes place before a story begins.
Internal analepsis (a flashback to an earlier point in the narrative). External analepsis (a flashback to a time before the narrative began).
List the four types of point of view and explain them.
First person, second person, third person limited/omniscient
The author uses characterization to inform the reader about their character through
What the character _____, what the character _______, what another character __________, what the character________.
Says,
Does
Says about the character
Looks like
What is theme? Give an example of a theme from one of the short stories we have read.
It is the focus of the story. Expresses a lesson or moral.
List the three types of irony. Describe each.
Situational Irony: The opposite of what you expect happens
Verbal Irony: Saying one thing and meaning the opposite.
Dramatic Irony: The reader knows something that characters in the story don't.
List the four typs of characters we've covered. Name an example from a popular novel/movie
Protagonist, antagonist, Deuteragonist, and tertiary characters.
Ex: ...
What is forshadowing? What's its purpose? What are the two types?
A literary device used to give an indication or hint of what is to come later in the story. Foreshadowing is useful for creating suspense, a feeling of unease, a sense of curiosity, or a mark that things may not be as they seem
Direct foreshadowing: In this type of foreshadowing, the story openly suggests an impending problem, event, or twist. Direct foreshadowing is usually accomplished through the characters’ dialogue, the narrator’s comments, a prophecy, etc.
Indirect foreshadowing: In this type of foreshadowing, the story hints at an outcome by leaving subtle clues throughout the story.
What is symbolism? List four symbols from The Landlady. Explain one.
Symbolism gives depth to a story, it uses objcts, colours, characters, etc. to reprsent a deeper meaning.
The chrysanthemums, the teacup, the guestbook, the stuffed animals,
Idenitify the 5 plot points in The Monkeys Paw
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