Focus on Fundamentals
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- setting
- time, place, moral environment
- mood
- emotional atmosphere, physical setting
- theme
- central idea
- motif
- unifying symbol or idea throughout the piece
- symbol
- represents an idea or can symbolize a character
- plot
- sequence of events
- exposition
- introduces characters and setting
- rising action
- introduction to conflicy and build up to conflict
- climax
- confilct at its highest point
- falling action
- helps to find resolution
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resolution/conclusion/
denouement - change
- point of view
- how the story is being told
- 1st person point of view
- a character in the story is telling the story
- 3rd person limited point of view
- seeing the story through one character's eys
- 3rd person omniscent point of view
- "all knowing" the narrator tells anything any character feels or thinks
- conflict
- opposition
- man vs. himself
- an internal conflict against yourself and how you feel
- man vs. man
- conflict between two characters
- man vs. society
- one view vs. the rest of the people's views, trying to prove the one view correct
- man vs. nature
- the man is struggling for survival against the forces of nature
- man vs. supernatural
- man vs. a force that is not real
- internal conflict
- conflict in yourself
- external conflict
- conflict against another person/force
- character
- a person in the story
- major character
- one who appears throughout the story
- protagonist
- main character
- antagonist
- the character that opposes the protagonist
- secondary character
- has a role in the outcome of the story
- dynamic character
- one who grows and develops through the story, who is different in the end from the beginning
- static character
- one that stays the smae throughout the story and does not change
- dialect
- the way the story is written and told
- fiction
- did not happen, made up
- non-fiction
- historic or real material
- social criticism
- critizing an idea in society
- bildungsroman
- german play, protagonist is dynamic
- picaresque
- episodic play, main character is always on the edge
- inference
- the meaning of the book you take away
- irony
- unexpected twist
- satire
- critism with humor in mind, with an intent to make a change
- paradox
- situation is contradictory
- intrusive narrator
- the author adding in hints of what is to come that the characters in the novel do not know