MAGNER'S TEST >:(
Terms
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- exposition
- find out background info, setting, intro of characters, and other necessary info
- inciting event
- an event that occurs that messes up the balance of the protagonist's life
- conflict
- problem that must be solved
- internal conflict
- problem that exists within a character
- external conflict
- problem that exists with another character or an outside force
- rising actions
- story actions that occur leading up the the climax
- climax
- highest point of interest/action, must be between protagonist, antagonist
- falling actions
- story actions that occur that lead up to the resolution
- resolution/denouement
- loose ends tied up, problems solved
- protagonist
- main/central character, has a decision to make
- antagonist
- character(s) that work against the protagonist
- symbol
- something that represents something else
- literal meaning
- surface level meaning, no symbolism
- denotative
- means dictionary-literal meaning
- figurative meaning
- deeper meaning, symbolism involved
- connotative meaning
- sybolism, figurative meaning
- interior monologue
- hearing the person's thought processes
- naturalism
- nature neither helps nor hurts--only exists
- satire
- irony or caustic wit used to expose human folly (lack of good sense)
- feud
- fight over time
- interloper
- someone who meddles in someone else's business
- thesis statement
- must be clear, argueable, and qualified--the main point of your essay
- 1st person narration
- narration told from a character in a story, expect to hear I, me, we, etc.
- 3rd person narration
- narration told from a removed location, expect to hear he, she, they, etc
- 3rd person limited
- narration told in the 3rd person but we only know as much as one character
- omniscient narration
- the narrator knows all
- implied resolution
- a solution to the story that is suggested but not told to the reader
- interpretive essay
- =( no idea what the hell to write here.... go look it up you lazy asses jkjk i love you!
- foreshadowing
- damn it why don't I have these notes? ohh well... something about a hint that the author gives about what will happen next
- ironic
- don't have these either-- sarcastic?
- plot
- characters and setting that happen throughout the story, the main point of the story
- motif
- a reoccuring theme in the story, like a theme
- theme
- a reoccuring motif in the story, like a motif
- allegory
- a symbolic meaning in a narrative(dont know, dont have this one....)
- rite of passage
- the journey a character takes to go from innocence to experience