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| the portion of a story that introduces important background information to the audience; for example, information about the setting, events occurring before the main plot, characters' back stories, etc. |
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| that series of events that begin immediately after the exposition (introduction) of the story and builds up to the climax. These events are generally the most important. |
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| the turning point of the story; the moment when the ultimate suspense reaches its peak. It is the problem of the story. |
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| the sequence of events in a story that follow the climax and often end in the resolution. |
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| the point in the story where the conflict is solved and the events after the conflict has been resolved when we see the aftermath. |
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| an opposing force that faces a main character in a story. It keeps the story flowing and the audience interested as it introduces suspense to the plot. |
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| "Man against man" conflict |
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| involves stories where characters are against each other.[8][10] This is an external conflict. The conflict may be direct opposition, as in a gunfight or a robbery, or it may be a more subtle conflict between the desires of two or more characters, as in a romance or a family epic. |
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| Where man stands against a man-made institution (such as slavery or bullying.)In such stories, characters are forced to make moral choices or frustrated by social rules in meeting their own goals. |
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| "Man against nature" conflict |
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| an external struggle positioning the hero against an animal or a force of nature, such as a storm or tornado or snowman against nature" conflict is an external struggle positioning the hero against an animal or a force of nature, such as a storm or tornado or snow |
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| "man against self" conflict, |
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| the struggle is internal. This is a conflict that is usually associated with an external conflict. A character must overcome his own nature or make a choice between two or more paths - good and evil; logic and emotion. |
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| occurs when a character is compelled to follow an unknown fate. This conflict breeds internal conflict, while forcing a character to consciously, or subconsciously, act on his or her fate. |
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| Indirect characterization |
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| The audience must infer for themselves what the character is like through the character’s thoughts, actions, speech (choice of words, way of talking), looks and interaction with other characters, including other characters’ reactions to that particular person. |
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| The author literally tells the audience what a character is like. This may be done via the narrator, another character or by the character him- or herself. |
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| the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character. |
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| A character that changes in the course of the plot |
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| a minor character in a work of fiction who does not undergo substantial change or growth in the course of a story.also known as static. |
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| a major character in a work of fiction who encounters conflict and is changed by it. They tend to be more fully developed and described than flat, or static, characters. |
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| the main character in a story, novel, drama, or other literary work, the character that the reader or audience empathizes with. The antagonist opposes this character. |
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| the character who opposes the hero, or protagonist. He provides the story's conflict. |
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| minor characters in a work of fiction who do not undergo substantial change or growth in the course of a story. Also known as flat. |
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| compares two unlike things |
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| a form of comparison in which one thing is compared to another unlike thing by using specific words of comparison like like, as, and resembles. |
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| speaking of something that is not human as if it had human abilities |
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| an instance of using a word, phrase, or clause more than once in a short passage--dwelling on a point. |
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| the use of several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted (as in "he ran and jumped and laughed for joy"). |
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| an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis. |
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| the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect |
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| the words in a list are separated by commas and no conjunctions are used to join the words in a list. |
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| refers to a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem. |
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| a meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly. |
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| literal or dictionary meanings of a word in contrast to its connotative or associated meanings. |
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