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Point of View: First
- written as if you are the narrator.
- Ex: I went........
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Point of View: Second
- written as if the reader is telling about you.
- Ex: You did........
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Point of View: third
- written as if the writer was not involved.
- Ex: He went to........
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Point of View: third Omniscient
a god-like narrator who knows everything and can share it all with the reader
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Point of View: third limited
a god-like narrator who knows everything about one or two characters and can share it all with the reader
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Point of View: third Objective
narration as if the narrator only knows what is visible to them
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Distance
the amount of space between the reader/author and the characters
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perspective
point of view the author takes
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narrative arc
- story line of a short story.
- Ex: rising action, climax,falling action, resolution
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backstory
- past events necessary to understand a narrative or its significance
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flashback
A leap into the past within a literay piece of work
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dialogue
the character's talk
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direct dialogue
the spoken words quoted
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indirect dialogue
- the words related in third person.
- Ex: She said"......"
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summarized dialogue
- reported at a distance
- Ex:she claimed to have hated taking the kids to the park.
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story
a series of events arranged so as to reveal their significance usally involving a conflict, crisis, and resolution.
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plot
a series of events arranged so as to reveal their significance.
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show versus tell
describe the feeling besides tell what the narrator is seeing
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character
A fictional person
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flat character
a character that are defined by a single idea
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stock character
same as a flat character
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narrator (narrative voice)
the one who tells the story
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voice
the recognizable style style of a particular writer or character, composed of syntax, vocabulary, attitude and tone.
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setting
the place and period in which a story or drama takes place
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summary
way of treating time in a fiction. covers a long period of time in a few sentences.
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scene
a way of treating time in a fiction. scence is an in-depth description of an event durring a short spann of time.
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subtext
information hidden between the lines of text
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alliteration
repeated consonants, likely ones with stressed syllables
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assonance
repeated vowel sounds
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diction
a combination of vocabulary, the words chosen, and syntax, the order in which they are used
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free verse
verse that lacks a regular meter or rhyme scheme
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formal poem
verse written in a predeterminen pattern of rhyme and rhythm.
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slant rhyme (off-rhyme/near-rhyme/half rhyme)
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Line
a series of words after which there is a typographical break.
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Caesura
A pause in poetry within the line (often indicated with comma or period)
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Enjambment
The opposite of end-stopped; the phrase and the meaning are carried on to the next line or staza
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end-stopped
The phrase, clause, or sentence punctuation occurs at the end of the poetic line
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Denotation
the most direct or specific meaning of a word
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Connotation
- the complex of meanings and ideas that come to be associated with a word.
- Ex: "rose" suggest more than the flower but beauty, fragrance or other things.
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Metonymy
- a figure of speech in which one word or phrase is used as a substitute for another with which it is associated.
- ex: the pen is mightier than the sword.
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Personification
use of wording to give inanimate objects life
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Metaphor
- The comparison of one term with another such that a tension is created between what is alike and what is unlike between the two
- assumes or states the comparison without acknowledging that it is a comparison
- Ex: my electric muscles shock the crowd.
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Simile
type of metaphor that acknowledges the comparison thru words like "like" or "as".
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Hyperbole
extreme exaggeration
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Oxymoron
- a figure of speech that combines or juxtaposes two contradictory words.
- ex:Jumbo shrimp
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Reflection/Authorial intrusion
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creative Non-fiction (literary non-fiction)
The essay enlivened through attention to stylistic and dramatic devices, personal voice, and a search for range and resonance.
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