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| Front-side | Reverse-side |
|---|---|
| action | grounds in the characters’ temperament, desires and moral nature |
| Antagonist | anything (person, physical or social environment) destructive or in conflict with the protagonist |
| Character | interpreted by reader as endowed with particular moral, intellectual and emotional qualities |
| Characterization | the process by which the traits of the character are presented |
| Characterization—3 main things | consistency, motivation, plausability |
| Climax | high point or tunring point of the plot, point at which major conflict is resolved |
| Conflict | Clash of actions, desires, ideas or goals in the plot of a story (man against man) (man against environment) (man against himself) |
| consistency | characters behavior should not change without sufficient reasons for change |
| Denouement | resolution—Part of the plot that reveals the final outcome of the coflict or it reveals the solution of the mysteries |
| Dialogue | what a person says |
| Dilemma | Character must choose between two courses of action (both undesirable) |
| Direct characterisation | Telling |
| dramatic characterization | revealed through his or her own words or actions (through speech) |
| dramatic irony | incongruity or discrepancy between what a character says or thinks and what the reader knows to be true |
| Dynamic character | a character who undergoes a permanent change in some aspect of his personality or outlook |
| Exposition | occuring early in the narrative. Introduction of major characters, revelation of the setting |
| First person point of view | story told by one of hte characters, in first person. Narrator may be a minor or major character |
| Flat character | limited to one or two individual traits (just there to help with setting, only one main purpose) |
| Foil | serves to stress and highlight distinctive temperament of the protagonist |
| Foreshadowing | detail within the narrative about something that will happen later in the story (development of suspense as well) |
| implicit characterization | character is presented interms of his or her environment (descriptive details about character and wors and thoughts of other characters) interaction, description |
| Indirect characterization | showing |
| Introspective characterization | reader possesses access to characters mind |
| Limited omnicient point of view | Thir dperson, complete knowlege of one character in the story (reveals character experiences, knowlege two types of characters—major or minor) |
| moral | rule of conduct for living |
| motif | a conspicuous element such as type of incident, device, reference, or formula |
| Motivation | dialogue and action itellect morality/spirituality emotion |
| motivation | audience should understand why the character acts the way they do |
| Objective (or dramatic) point of view | Third person narrator limited to revealin gthe actions and dialogue of the characters, does not interpret behavior or reveal their thoughts. (camera—movie with voice over) |
| Omnicient point of view | thrid person, narrator knows everything and reveals anything (including what hcaracters (all of them) think, feel and why they act the way they do) |
| plausability | must be lifelike |
| Plot | in dramatic or narrativework the events and actions are rendered are ordered toward achieving particular and emotional effects |
| Protagonist | the character in the plot in who our interest centers |
| Round character | complex, characters we know a lot about, main character |
| Setting | time and place in which action occurs |
| Static character | the same at the end of the story as he was at the beginning, opposite of dynamic character |
| stock character | type than individual, nature is familiar to the reader from prototypes in previous narratives |
| Story | sequence of events in time, chronological order |
| symbol | something concrete that means more than it is: objet, person, situation or action] 1) narrative msut provide evidence that a detail is to be taken symbollically 2) meaning of literary symbol must be established and supported 3) suggest a meaning different in kind from its literal meaning 4) symbol may have more than one meaning |
| theme | underyling message or moral, a feeling, overall impression that the story is trying to convey |
| verbal irony | a figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant |