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Character
Point Of View
types of fiction
literary terms
types of irony
100
Extremely realistic, behaving and speaking in a "real life" manner. The character is complex and increases in complexity throughout the story.
What is Round Character?
100
The reader can feel like he/she is hearing the dialogue directly from the characters. “I” and “We”
What is 1st Person?
100
originally a long poem celebrating the exploits of a factual or fictitious hero, but now applied to prose works on the same theme as well
What is Epic
100
an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
What is allusion
100
Verbal irony is the use of words to mean something different from what a person actually says.
What is Verbal Irony
200
A literary or dramatic character who undergoes little or no inner change; a character who does not grow or develop.
What is Static Character
200
A point of view(how a story is told) which the narrator tells the story to another character using 'you'.
What is 2nd person?
200
a story structured to resemble a factual life story
What is Fictional biography
200
a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.
What is pun
200
This type of irony is popular in works of art such as movies, books, poems and plays. It occurs when the audience is aware of something that the characters in the story are not aware of.
What is Dramatic Irony
300
A literary or dramatic character who undergoes an important inner change, as a change in personality or attitude
What is Dynamic Character
300
the writer tells what happens without stating more than can be inferred from the story's action and dialogue.
What is objective POV
300
an adventure story in which the hero accomplishes great feats to aid a noble cause
What is Swashbuckler
300
a spoken or written account of connected events; a story.
What is narrative
300
It involves a discrepancy between what is expected to happen and what actually happens. Situation irony occurs when the exact opposite of what is meant to happen, happens.
What is Situation Irony
400
Are two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of a work.
What is Flat Character
400
Here the narrator does not participate in the action of the story as one of the characters, but lets us know exactly how the characters feel. We learn about the characters through this outside voice.
What is third person POV
400
a fast-paced story involving improbable situations and antics from which the humor derives
What is Screwball comedy
400
able to move quickly and easily
What is agile
400
•A fire station burns down
What is situational irony
500
Archetypal characters distinguished by their flatness; as a result, they tend to be easy targets for parody and to be criticized as clichés
What is Stock Character
500
A rare form of first person is the first person omniscient, in which the narrator is a character in the story, but also knows the thoughts and feelings of all the other characters. It can seem like third person omniscient at times.
What is limited omniscient point of view
500
a story structured to resemble a factual life story
What is Fictional biography
500
Another term for the symbol obelisk
What is DAGGER
500
•Two people are engaged to be married but the audience knows that the man is planning to run away with another woman.
What is dramatic irony