| A | B |
|---|
| plot | the sequence of events in a story within a structure which involves conflict, as a main charecter, stuggles with one or more opposing charecters or forces |
| internal conflict | person vs. self- a struggle between opposing needs or desires, or emotions inside a single charecter |
| external conflict | a charecters struggle with an outside force |
| exposition | the opening portion that sets the scene,introduces the charecters, and gives backround info needed to understand the story |
| foreshadowing | the use of clues to hint at what is going to happen later in the plot |
| complications | are problems which develop to intensify the conflict |
| suspense | a sense of anxiety in the reader regarding the outcome |
| climax | the moment of greatest tension, the turning point in the action at which time the outcome is to be deiceded |
| epiphany | some moment of insight, discovery, or relevation by which a charecters life, or view of life is greatly altered |
| irony | a contrast or discrepency between expectation and reality |
| situational irony | when what actually happens is the oppisite of what is expected or appropriate |
| verbal irony | occurs when the writer or speaker says one thing, but really means the opposite |
| dramatic irony | occurs when the audience or reader knows something important that the chareceter doesn't |
| denoumont/resoliution | all the conflicts, problems, or mysteries are unraveled or conclueded |
| flashback | a scence relived in a charecters memory |
| point of veiw/ narrarator | the vantage point from which a writer tells a story |
| first person | a dramatized chareceter who says "i, we us,..." theis narrarator may be a main character, minor, or an unidetified oberserver |
| first person reflective | the narrarator is relating to something that happended earlier |
| first person unreliable/ innocent or naive | the narrarator is unaware of their own ingnorace, predujice, or lack of reason and may be naive, decepitve... |
| third person | the narrarator remains nonparticipant viewing the charecters, perhaps seeing into the minds of one or more of them. they refer to them as " he, she they.." |
| third person omnicscient | all knowing, the narrarator sees into the minds of all the charecters |
| third person liminted omnicscent | the narrarators knows the thoughts and sees through the eyes of only one charecter |
| motivation | suffiecent reason to behave as you do |
| stereotypes | regonized by the reader by some outstanding trait or traits. they tend to have single dominat virtues or vices |
| static charecter | usually flat- does not undergo a change in charecter |
| dynamic charecter | changes as a result of the events in the work |
| protaganist | a main charecter struggling with an opposing force |
| antagonist | the opposing force |
| setting | the time, place, culture, and circumanstances of events |
| versimilitude | when the author has acheived teh appearance of reality in fiction |
| mood | the atomoshpere created by the description of the setting and charecters |
