Literary Terms Set One

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Literary TermsSet One

• English I

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• Protagonist
• Antagonist
• Narrator
• Character
• Setting
• Conflict

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• Examples
• Protagonist-
• Antagonist-
• Setting-

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CONFLICT

• Internal- Man vs. Himself
• External- Man vs. Man
• Man vs. Nature
• Man vs. Society

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PLOT

• Sequence of events in a story

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Plot Elements

• Exposition
• Narrative Hook
• Rising Action
• Climax
• Falling Action
• Resolution (Denouement)

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• Exposition
• Background Information
• Narrative Hook
• Catches your attention by
• introducing the storys conflict

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• Rising Action Adds complications of details to
  the story to advance the plot
• Climax Turning point of the story

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• Falling Action Result of the climax
• Resolution The final outcome of the story

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• SUSPENSE
• Growing feeling of excitement or anxiety that
  makes the reader wonder what will happen next

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• Genre Category of literature
• Ex Novel
• Short Story A brief fictional prose narrative
  that may be read in one sitting
• Fiction Literary work of the imagination

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FLASHBACK

• Break in time sequence when character returns to
  an earlier time by remembering the past

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FORESHADOWING

• Clues or hints to the future to prepare the
  reader for up-coming plot development

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Review

1. Genre
2. Plot
3. Short Story
4. Antagonist
5. Climax
6. Narrative Hook
7. Resolution
8. External Conflict

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1. Rising Action
2. Protagonist
3. Flashback
4. Fiction
5. Narrator
6. Exposition
7. Falling Action
8. Foreshadowing
9. Internal Conflict