Studied by 21 peopleProtagonist
The person the audience is rooting for to overcome their pain.
Antagonist
The person who inflicts pain on other people.
Setting
The time, place, and mood of a story.
Situational Irony
Relates to an event/plot; something unexpected happens
Dramatic Irony
When the reader knows something that the character doesn't
Verbal Irony
When something different is meant than what is said; when there is a different reaction than expected.
Symbol
Something that represents something else. These have meanings because of an agreement that they mean something.
Diction
Word choice
Denotation
The literal meaning of a word
Connotation
The emotional quality or implication of a word
Claim
A statement of what you believe to be true and must be legitimately arguable.
Lead-in
A brief synopsis of a text that supplies background information.
Evidence
An excerpt from the text that backs the claim.
Analysis
Why the evidence is relevant (breaks something into smaller components)
Reasoning
Relates the evidence back to the claim.
CLEAR
The format of writing used in body paragraphs. Stands for claim, lead-in, evidence, analysis, and reasoning.
Speaker/Persona
Communicating to convey a message through any medium doesn't have to be verbal.
Audience
The demographic that is being communicated to by the speaker
Purpose
The reason of why communicating with the audience.
Context
All other things besides communication that allows for understanding (time and place) and describes the rules of social interaction.
Occasion
Circumstance of time and place that communication occur.
Tone
Speaker's attitude towards the subject
Aristotelian Rhetoric
Aristotle's view of persuasion.
Subject
The general topic, content, and ideas in the text.
Plot
The sequence of events in a story; must be related by cause and effect.
Irony
Deflection of an expectation.
Exposition
The beginning of the story that establishes the setting and characters.
Conflict
The big "cause" of a story. The point of a story where the problem is first introduced.
Rising Action
The increasing tension in the story after the conflict is introduced.
Climax
The big "effect" of a story. The biggest turning point where the character(s) face the conflict.
Resolution
The end of a story where the closure of the conflict is established.
Narrative
A story that has a plot, characters, and setting.
Character
Beings within the story
Direct Characterization
The author explicitly describes a character
Indirect Characterization
The author implicitly describes a character through their actions, speech, thoughts, appearance, and response from others (ASTAR).
Characterization
The methods an author uses to build and describe a character.
SOAPSTone
Stands for speaker, occasion, audience, purpose, subject, and tone. It is used as a method of text analysis.
Topic
The main subject/central idea of a text
Theme
What the text is trying to convey.
Deductive Reasoning
Starts with a general truth and uses it to draw a specific conclusion
Inductive Reasoning
Starts with specific observation and uses it to draw a general conclusion
Preposition
States the main idea, also known as thesis
Premise
A topic sentence or a subtopic of the preposition.
Claim of Fact
An argument about what is true
Claim of Value
A philosophical claim that is about what something is worth
Claim of Policy
Encourages the reader to take other courses of action on what is being written.
Intertextuality
Relationship between texts
Anagnorisis
Recognition (an epiphany)
Peripeteia
Reversal
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