Plot
The pivotal moment that changes everything in the story.
What is the climax?
A story told from the perspective of one active character.
What is first-person?
When a thing or object represents a deeper idea or concept.
What is symbolism?
The entire story revolves around this character.
Who is the protagonist?
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What is Threads?
This is the beginning of the story and usually introduces the setting and most main characters.
What is the exposition?
A narration style that makes the reader an active participant. Uses "you".
What is second-person?
True or False:
Words, colors, images, and actions can also be symbols.
True
This is the character or force that creates conflict for the protagonist.
Who is the antagonist?
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What is Barbie?
The ending point.
What is the resolution?
A story told by an outside narrator who knows the feelings and thoughts of at least one character.
What is third-person limited?
"I am a black ocean/ leaping and wide"
What is a metaphor?
You look at speech, thoughts, effect on others, actions, and looks to determine traits of a character.
What is indirect characterization?
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What is Twitter?
The issue that leads directly to the climax.
What is the conflict?
A story told by an all-knowing narrator.
What is third-person omniscient?
"..but the carpet has fought back by showing its weariness, with depressing uniformity, elsewhere on its surface" (aRiTS Act 1).
What is personification?
The reason behind a character's actions.
What is motivation?
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What is Flowers?
Action(s) that slowly change the fictional world and build to the climax.
What is rising action?
True or false: most dramas do not have a traditional "narrator" and therefore analyzing POV is less applicable.
What is true?
the intentional use of contrast
What is juxtaposition?
A character that has intentional similarities and differences with another character, used to highlight the protagonist's characteristics.
Who is a character foil?
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What is Olivia Rodrigo?
Extending this part of the plot may increase suspsense.
What is rising action?
. I said, “I’m only going to say this once. I am not going with you to the mall.” What point of view is this?
What is first-person point of view?
When the audience knows something that the characters do not.
What is dramatic irony?
When a character's problems come from other people, nature, or society.
What is external conflict?
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What is Spain?
An event that settles the story towards a resolution.
What is a falling action?
This determines the story's point of view. Someone who tells a story.
What is narrator?
This literary device is an obvious exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
What is stage directions?
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What is Matthew Perry?