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Literary Terms
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Vocabulary
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What is a narrative essay?
Story about an event the narrator has experienced
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What is suspense?
The excitement, or mentally uncertainty, in a story
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What is the difference between direct and indirect characterization?
Direct characterization is when the story comes right out and tells you about the character. Indirect is when you have to assume what the story to trying to tell you.
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What happens at the end of "The Most Dangerous Game"?
Rainsford is waiting for General Zaroff in the bedroom. Rainsford kills General Zaroff.
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What is theme?
Central topic that the text treats
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What is personification?
To give human characteristics to inanimate objects.
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What is foreshadowing?
Foreshadowing is where events early in the story give clues to what is going to happen
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What is the difference between protagonist and antagonist?
Protagonist is the main character of the story. Antagonist is the force working against the protagonist.
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What is the plot of "The Necklace?"
Honesty is the best policy
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What is conflict?
The fight or battle of a story
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What is tone?
Author's attitude in a story.
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What is a plot diagram?
A diagram that shows the story's plot and sequence of events
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What is irony?
use of a word used to convey a meaning that is opposite of the literary meaning
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What is the climax of "The Sniper?"
The Republican Sniper shoots the opposite shooter. He, then, goes down to see who he shot. He ended up shooting his brother.
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What is a simile?
A compariso between two things using the words like or as
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What is internal and external conflict?
Internal- man vs. self External- man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. society
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What is a flashback?
An event that happened before present time
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What is a paradox?
A statement whose two parts seem contradictory yet make sense with more thought
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What happens at the end of "The Scarlet Ibis?"
Doodle and the narrator were running home in the rain. Doodle fell down and the narrator left him there. When the narrator went back to get him, he was dead.
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What is setting?
The time or place the story takes place
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What is the difference between third-person omniscient and third-person limited?
Omniscient- able to see everyone's point of view while in third-person Limited- able to see only one person's point of view while in third-person
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What are the five points that make up the Freytag's Pyramid? (In order)
Exposition(Introduction), Rising Action(Conflict), Climax(Turning point), Falling Action, Resolution(Denouement)
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What is a paradox?
sentence that seems self-contradictory but expresses the possible truth
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How did Rainsford end up on the island in "The Most Dangerous Game?"
He heard a gunshot and jumped on the boat to figure out where it came from. He fell in the ocean and swam to the island.
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What is a metaphor?
A comparison between two things without using like or as