English Final

What makes a story a story?

Plot, setting, character, theme, narrators/voice, audience/purpose

Exposition (basic situation)

introduced to character and problems

Internal conflict

struggle inside of head or heart of character

External conflict

character faces off against nature, another character

Complication

character must move through this to move forward

Climax

point of highest emotional intensity (learn the outcome of the story)

Resolution

the final closing (audience understands the outcome and what happen)

Chronological

each thing happens in order

Flashback

telling the story with a scene out of order

Flash-Forward

the writer interrupts the scene and moves the story forward in time

Foreshadowing

clue offered by the author to hint at what might happen later

Suspense

creating interesting characters/ situations you care about; use of sentence structure to heighten interests

Setting

time and place of a story

Characterization

how traits are revealed

Direct character

writer tells audience exactly what we should know

Indirect character

writer lets us see character in action

Flat character

two dimensional with no depth

Round character

many traits and complexities

Stock character

fits a stereotype

Static

character does not change

Dynamic

character who changes

First person

an actual character in the story

Third person

a character outside the story

Omniscient

the narrator who knows everything about everyone but is not actually in the story

Allegory

all characters symbolize vices and virtues

Fable

animal characters teach a lesson

Parable

everyday situations to teach lessons about ethics or mortality

Verbal irony

someone says something but meaning the opposite

Dramatic irony

audience knows something characters dont

Situational irony

occurrence that is surprising and the opposite of what you expect

Noun

a word that is a person, place, thing or idea

Verb

typically shows action…it does something

Adjective

a word that describes a noun

Adverb

adds to verbs; answers the question how, when, where and to what extent

Preposition

a word that shows a relationship between two nouns

Interjection

an exclamatory word or phrase

Conjunction

a word joining words, phase or clauses

Third person limited

Third person Omnicent