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| Protagonist vs. Antagonist |
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| central character, the principal person in the story/the character who is in opposition to the protagonist |
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| the pleasurable anxiety we feel that heightens our attention to the story, makes us wonder how it all turns out |
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| an indication of events to come |
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| the moment of greatest tension at which the outcome is dated |
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| the outcome or conclusion of the story |
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| starting "in the midst of things", first presenting some exciting or significant moment, then filling in what happens earlier |
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| Editorial vs. Impartial Omniscience |
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| when a narrator adds occasional comment or opinion vs. being non-judgemental |
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| a scene revealed in a character's memory |
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| some moment of insight, discovery or revelation by which a character's life, or view of life, is greatly altered |
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| a gesture with larger significance than usual |
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| whatever leads us to infer the author's attitude- commonly the choice of details, characters, events, situation, and words leads us to an understanding of tone |
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| individual traits or characteristics of a place of writing- a writer's particular way of managing words |
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| a story which tells of a character's initiation into experience or maturity |
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| an author of realism who has a flat, laid back, unemotional tone- it is an appropriately bare, unadorned style- the author gives nothing but the facts drawn from ordinary life |
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| implies a contrast or discrepancy between what is said and what is meant |
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| verbal irony tinged with mockery |
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| a situation can be ironic if it contains some wry contrast or incongruity |
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| a point of view where we sense a sharp distinction between the narrator of a story and the author |
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| when we sense that some malicious fate (or other spirit of the universe) is deliberately frustrating human efforts |
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| a thing that suggests more than its literal meaning- symbols generally do not "stand for" any one meaning, not for anything definite; they point or hint to greater significance or meaning |
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| a story in which persons, places and things form a system of clearly labeled equivalents |
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