Literary Term Cards
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- frame story
- The story within the main story usually told by one of the characters
- External Conflict
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Conflict outside character.
(Character vs. Outside character) - dramatic Irony
- Where the audience knows something the charater doesn't
- metaphor
- refers to one thing as if it were another thing without using the words like or as or resemles.
- motif
- - a char5acter event inage of theme that appeares in storys around the world and in different cultures.
- Internal Conflict
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conflict within the charater.
(Character Vs. self) - Climax
- The most exiting part of the story the moment of which the outcome of the conflictis decided.
- simile
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compares two unlike thing using the words
like or as -
Third Person limited
(he said she said) - The story is told from a single standpoint but here the character is refered to in the third as he said she said. we only know the thought and feelings of one character.
- 4 types of external conflict
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1 Person vs person
2 Person vs society
3 Person vs nature
4 one group vs another group - resolution
- The ending of the story. It occurs when the conflict ends and the outcome is clear
- Conflict
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The problem or struggle between the character
and opposing forces. - legends
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-stories inspired by real people and events
-from the recent past
- personification
- giving nonhuman things/objects human qualities
- Irony
- a contrast between expectation and reality
- Exposition
- The beggining of the story that gives the background info of the characters and their situation.
- inner story
- the main story
- verbal Irony
- where what is said and what is meant
- Tone
- The authors feelings mood or attitudetwards the topic
- situational irony
- where what happens is very different from what we expect
- Foreshadowing
- Clues or hints that suuest future events in the story
- Folk tale
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- have been passed along for many years.
-animals are personified
-moral or lesson at end of story - suspence
- the feeling of exitment or curiosity about what will happen next in the story.
- point of view
- The antage point from which th story is told.
- myth
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-old story that reflects some religious tragities and beliefs
-stories of explantion -
First person
Me Me Me Me - Used the pronoun "I" throughout the stoy. in this point of view, we know only what this one character can tell us.
- setting
- Time and location of the story
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third person ominscient
(the know it all) - The narrator is outside the story and knows on the minds of all the characters.
- framework story
- a story that consist of a frame and inner story