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| The author's selection and arrangement of incidents in a story. |
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| Beginning a story "in the middle of things". |
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| A narrated scene that marks a break in the narrative in order to provide information about previous events. |
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| A character who undergoes some kind of change because of the action of the plot. |
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| A character who does not change. |
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| Helps to reveal by contrast the distinctive qualities of another character. |
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| Embodies of or two qualities, ideas, or traits that can be readily summarized. |
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| Sterotyped characters who lack individuality. |
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| More complex characters that have more depth and require more attention. Exhibit competing ideas, values, and possibilities in their lives. |
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| The physical and social context in which the action of a story occurs. |
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| Refers to who tells us the story and how it is told. |
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| An all-knowing narrator. Can move from place to place and pass back and forth through time. Can report characters' thoughts and feelings as well as what they say and do. |
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| The I in the story. Presents the point of view of only one character. The reader is restricted to the perceptions, thoughts, and feelings of that single character. |
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| Reveals an interpretation of events that is somehow different from the author's own interpretation of those events. |
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| A narrator usually characterized by youthful innocence. |
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| A person, object, image, word, or event that suggests more than its literal meaning. |
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| A work wherein events, actions, characters, settings, and objects represent specific abstractions or ideas. |
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| The central meaning or dominant idea in a literary work. |
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| The distinctive manner in which a writer arranges words to achieve particular effects. |
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| The narrator's implicit attitude toward the reader or the people, places, and events in a work. |
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| The main character of the story who engages the reader's interest and empathy. |
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| The character, force, or collection of forces that opposes the protagonist. |
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| Irony (3 characteristics) |
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1. Two or more meanings are possible
2. These layers are in opposition.
3. Contains an element of unawareness |
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| Plot Phase One: Exposition |
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| Presentation and explanation of the materials of the story |
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| Plot Phase Two: Complication |
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| The onset and development of the major conflicts. |
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| Plot: Phase Three: Crisis |
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| The turning point where the action arrives at its greatest tension. |
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| The high point and conclusion of the previous action. |
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| Plot Phase Five: Resolution or Denouement. |
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| The completion of the story after the climax. |
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