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| A struggle between two or more opposing forces in a novel short story or play. |
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| when a character has a problem with another character. |
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| When a character must make a decision about a problem or struggle within his/herself |
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| When a chracter has a problem with a tradition norm or rule of society |
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| when a character has a problem with a force of nature such as weather, animals or other natural disasters. |
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| when a character has aproblem with something he she cannot do anything about such as god, luck, or death. |
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| the methods by an author to create a character. |
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methods of characterization |
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the cahracter's physical appearance the characters own speech, thoughts, actions, and or feelings other characters' speech, thoughts, actions, and or feelings about the character direct comments by the author or narrator about the character |
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a method where in the author tells his reader about a character |
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Indirect characterization |
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methods require the reader to infer facts about a character's trains. |
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types of indirect characterization |
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character's actions, words, physical description, or thoughts. or other character's actions, words, or thoughts |
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the reason that explains a chracter's thoughts, feelings, actions, or behavior. Why the character is thinking or acting a certain way. |
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the central character and focus of interest who is trying to accomplish or overcome an adversity adn who has the ability to adapt ot new circumstances or situations |
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the character opposing the protagonist. the protagonist can be a person idea or force. |
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a character that undergoes a change in actions or beliefs during the course of a story |
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a character that does not grow or change throughout the course of a story. Generally, this type of character ens as he she it began in the story |
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When an author chooses to concentrote on a singele dominant personality trait of a character creating a "two - dimensional" character |
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when an author presents a complex. " three dimensionsl" personality of a character |
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| Characters that embody a certain kind of universal human experience |
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A category of literature. |
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| The four major genres are nonfiction prose, fiction prose poetry and drama |
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the order, sequence of events, or actions in a short story, novel, play , or narrative poem. what happens in the story. |
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the time and place in which a story occurs |
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A central message, lesson or insight into life or people that is revealed through the literary work. often the theme is indirectly expressed thorugh insights. The purpose the author has for writing th estory, or the idea or opinion the author wishes to convey about the subject of the piece. |
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People, animals, or things with positive and/ or negative personality traits. characters can be flat or round, static or dynamic |
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the voice telling the story. |
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the narrators position with respect to the characters and the reader. |
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First person second person limited third person all knowing third person |
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| one of the story's character's narrates using the pronoun 'I' |
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| Scond person point of view |
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places the reader in the story using the pronoun "you" |
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| the narrator is outsid o f the story and sees events throught hte eyes of only one character. uses pronouns "he" "she" |
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the narrator is not one of the characters in the story, but rather narrates as though lookin in on the story and seeein gthe memotions motives, and actions of all the characters. the narrator uses the pronouns he and she |
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the writer's attitude toward his or her subject, character, or audience. for example serious, humorous, angry , or sympathetic |
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the feeling creatied in the reader by a literary work or passage. for example joyous, sorrowful, hopeful, or discouraged, |
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facts revealed by the author or speaker that supports the attitude, tone or events in a stor or poem |
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the lesson expresxsed in a simple story |
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| the structure of shape of a written work. for example haiku cinquain, limerick and iambic pentameter |
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a division in poetry equivilant to a paragraph in prose. |
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a type of dram in which the protagonis is highly renowned and prosperous, and whose reversal of fortune and fall from greatness are brough about by some error or frailty |
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the events in a tragedy dram a that inspire pity and terror in its viewers, allowing them, thorough vicarious participation in the dramatic event, to attain an emotional purgation ,moral purification, or larity of intellecual view point. |
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a play or movie of light and humorous character witha cheerful ending |
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