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Elements of fiction Vacab
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English
11th Grade
08/29/2011

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Message
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The entire meaning and reason behind writing a book or story.
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Protagonist
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The main character in a work of fiction.
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Symbol
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Something that stands for something beyond itself.
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Allusion
Definition
A reference to something with which the reader is assumed to be familiar.
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Exposition
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Background information, character, plot, and setting are introduced.
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Nature
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Inherent character or basic constitution of a person or thing.
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Dramatic
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When the reader or audience knows something that the characters do not.
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Point-of-view
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The relationship of the author to the story; the narrative method.
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Plot
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the chain of events that take place in a story.
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The Bible
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An Allusion
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First person
Definition
I, me , we
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Rising action
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Things began to happen, characters struggle to find solution to conflict
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Climax
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Turning point, moment of highest intensity
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Intensity
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The decree or extent to which something is intense.
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Stereotypical
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Characters who conform to a fixed pattern defined by a single trait.
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Setting
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The time and place in which the story occurs.
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Verbal irony
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What you say is not what you mean.
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Characterization
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The techniques writers use to develop characters
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Falling action
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Events that occur after the climax, the "wrap-up"
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Static character
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No change
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Internal
Definition
When the struggle take place within the character {man vs. himself)
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Man vs. man
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is a type external conflict
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Society
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Association with ones fellows.
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Foreshadowing
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A writer's use of hints or clues to indicate what will occur latter in the story.
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Conflict
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The struggle between opposing forces; the basis of the plot in dramatic and narrative literature.
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Machine vs. man
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is a type of external conflict
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