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Sequence of events.
(exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution) |
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| Introduces the characters, setting, and basic story. |
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| When characters try to resolve the problem. |
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| The high point of the book. |
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| Happens after the climax has been done with and the conflict was resolved. |
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| When the main conflict is resolved. |
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Characterization
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| Character's physical description and their words and actions. |
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| A character who exhibits many traits, including faults and as well as virtues. |
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| A character who seems to have only a single surface or aspect to her personality. |
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| The perspective in which the story is told. |
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| First Person Point of View |
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| When the narrator is one of the characters. |
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| Third Person Point of View |
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| When the narrator does not participate in the action. |
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| The time and place in which the story takes place. |
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| Objects, characters, facts, and colors used to represent ideas or thoughts. |
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| The use of words used to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning. |
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| The central message or insight into the life revealed through the work. |
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| When you are not decided or excited about something. |
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| Struggle between opposing forces. |
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| Occurs within a character who experiences opposing ideas or feelings. Within a person. |
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Occurs between characters or between a character and a force of nature.
Person against person, person against nature, nature against nature, person against machine, person agianst society. |
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| Form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group. |
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| To present and indication or suggestion before hand. |
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| A person or animal who takes part in the action of a literary work. |
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| A character who opposes the main character. |
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| The author directly states a character's traits. |
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| Indirect Characterization |
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| An author tells what a character looks like, does and says, as well as how other characters react to him or her. |
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| A struggle between opposing forces (internal VS. external). |
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