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Rising action - Suspense increases, learn more about characters and conflict.
Climax - Turning point, main event of story.
Falling action- suspense decreases, learn outcomes/consequences of turning point.
Denouement - the end, loose ends are tied up.
Plot
traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon.
Myth
type, example of a person or thing
Archetype
long poem, narrating the adventures of heroic figures or the history of a nation.
Epic
main character of an epic poem that tells the story of a grand quest.
Epic Hero
“in the middle of things” – much of the important action in the story occurred before the point at which the story begins
In Medias Res
an account of an event that happened before a story began
Flashback
excessive pride or vaulting ambition. Cocky, arrogant - a type of tragic flaw
Hubris
An event regarded as a portent of good or evil.
Omen
Animal, object, etc. given human qualities or characteristics
Personification
When a character gets what he deserves.
Poetic Justice
Hinting at things to come
Foreshadowing
Reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art
Allusion
symbol is an object, person, place, etc. that means more than what it is
Symbolism
The struggle between opposing forces or characters in a story.
Conflict
A character struggles with his or her own opposing desires, beliefs, or needs
Internal Conflict
A character struggles against an outside force (man vs. man, nature, society)
External Conflict
a short musical narrative song or poem that usually recounts a single exciting or dramatic episode
Ballad
poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter lines
Blank Verse
The ordinary form of spoken or written language without metrical structure
This is how WE talk/write
Prose
Sentence structure
Syntax
set of facts or circumstances surrounding an event or a situation in a piece of literature
Context
a saying that takes on special meaning, different from the actual words that make it up
Idiom
A difference between appearances and reality
Irony
When the audience knows something the characters do not know.
Dramatic Irony
irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected.
Situational Irony
Words used to suggest the opposite of what is meant
Verbal Irony
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