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What is character?
- Character can be revealed through the character's actions, speech, and appearance.
- It can also be revealed by the comments of other characters and of the author.
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What is a flat character?
not fully developed; we know only one side of the character.
ex. McDuff's son in Macbeth
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What is a round character?
fully developed, with many traits---bad and good----shown in the story.
ex. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth
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What is a static character?
one who does not experience a basic character change during the course of the story.
ex. Rosencrantz
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What is a dynamic character?
one who experiences a basic change in character through the events of the story.
ex. Macbeth, Macduff, Banquo
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What is plot?
the sequence of events which involves the characters in conflict.
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What is narrative order?
the sequence of events
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What is conflict?
the struggle between the protagonist and an opposing force
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What are the types of Conflict?
Internal and External
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What are the types of internal Conflict?
Internal
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What are the types of external conflict?
- Man against Man
- Man against Society
- Man against nature
- Man against fate
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What is included in setting?
place and time period
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What is an integral setting?
- essential to plot
- influences action, character, or theme
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What is backdrop setting?
relatively unimportant to the plot
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What is theme?
- underlying meaning of the story
- a universal truth
- significant statement
- society, human nature, or the human condition
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What is style?
the language used in a book, the way the words are put together to create the story.
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What are the devices of style?
imagery and figurative language
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What is imagery?
an appeal to any of the senses--taste, touch, sight, sound, and smell.
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What is figurative language?
uses words in a nonliteral way, giving them a meaning beyond their ordinary one.
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What are some examples of figurative language?
- Simile
- Metaphor
- Personification
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What are sound devices?
- Onomatopoeia
- Rhyme
- Assonance
- Consonance
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What is a pun?
a play on words
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What is a hyperbole?
an exagerration
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What is an allusion?
an indirect reference to something outside of the work that everyone should understand
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What is a symbol?
something--a person, object, situation, or action--which operates on two levels, the literal and the symbolic
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What is tone?
the author's attitude toward what he or she writes.
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Which is the easiest to recognize?
- Humor
- recognition adjectives:
- humorous, mysterious, creepy, straight-forward, matter-of-fact, exciting, boring, etc.
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