English 1 Midterm (monk)
English 1 Midterm (monk)
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- Third Person Point Of View
- Point of view of a spectator
- Setting
- Time and place of the action of the story
- Queen of the Tomboys
- What was Harper Lee's nickname?
- Edgar Allen Poe and Stephen King
- What are two Authors de Maupassant is compared with?
- First Person Point of View
- Character within the story tells the events of the story
- Antihero
- A Protagonist who has the reverse of most of the traditional attributes of a hero. A Hero that is a bad guy.
- Flat Character
- A character in a work of ficton that the reader does not know much about
- Minor Character
- Character who dosn't play a major role in a literary work
- Static Character
- Character in a work of fiction that does not change throughout the course of the story
- Simile
- Comparison using like or as
- Plot
- Chain of events in a Novel
- Antagonist
- Person or force in conflict with the Protagonist
- Dramatic Foils
- Different characters that play off of each others strengths and weaknesses
- Metaphor
- Comparison that does not use like or as
- World War I
- What War did Connel Serve in?
- Foreshadowing
- Hints of what is to come in a story
- Richard Connel
- Born 1893-Died 1925
- Guy de Maupassant
- Born 1850-Died 1893
- Cyphilis
- What disease did de Maupassant Contract?
- Round Character
- A character in a work of fiction that the reader learns a lot about and is well developed
- Franco-Prussian War
- What war did de Maupassant serve in?
- Climax
- Highest point of anything concieved of as growing or developing or unfolding
- Dynamic Character
- Character in a work of fiction that grows and develops over the course of the story
- Pulitzer Prize
- What award did TKM recieve?
- Direct Characterization
- Giving specific adjectives to describe a character
- Point of View
- Position from which the story is told
- Pun
- A humorous play on words
- New York
- Where did Lee move in 1950?
- Theme
- Central insight of the story
- Suspension of Disbelief
- Willingness to withhold questions about the truth, accuracy, or probability of characters or action
- Irony
- Contrast between expectation and reality
- Protagonist
- Main Character
- Ambiguous
- Unclear. Able to be understood in more than one way
- Conflict
- Struggle between opposing forces
- Harper Lee
- Born 1926-Still Alive
- Narrator
- Person who tells the story