7415119707 | 3 Genres | poetry, prose, drama | 0 | |
7415120596 | poetry | image | 1 | |
7415121327 | prose | character | 2 | |
7415121328 | drama | conflict | 3 | |
7415122296 | purposes of prose | escape and interpretation | 4 | |
7415123484 | escape | draws us away from ourselves | 5 | |
7415124553 | interpretation | makes us more introspective | 6 | |
7415141099 | plot | sequence of incidents or events of which a story is composed | 7 | |
7415146239 | types of conflict in a plot | physical, mental, emotional, moral, societal, environmental | 8 | |
7415150523 | protagonist | central character | 9 | |
7415150524 | antagonist | force against main character | 10 | |
7415153014 | its purpose is to accentuate an aspect of the main character | foil | 11 | |
7415155926 | often used to develop a main character | minor | 12 | |
7415159137 | what keeps the reader reading | narrative tension | 13 | |
7415160246 | methods of narrative tension | suspense, curiosity | 14 | |
7415163123 | 4 types of endings | happy, unhappy, indeterminate, surprise | 15 | |
7415166414 | What is essentially a good plot? | artistic unity; nothing is irrelevant | 16 | |
7415167138 | development of the plot | rising action, climax, falling action | 17 | |
7415172160 | methods of presentation | direct. indirect | 18 | |
7415172846 | direct presentation | tell us through exposition either what a character says or thinks or what others say about him or her | 19 | |
7415176936 | indirect presentation | shows us the character in action | 20 | |
7415179633 | requirements of a character | must act (otherwise is a narrative essay) and be dramatized (speak/act) | 21 | |
7415182332 | ambivalence, believability, consistency | character traits | 22 | |
7415186642 | character categories | flat or round | 23 | |
7415187402 | flat (stock) character | 1 or 2 traits | 24 | |
7415188242 | round character | complex/ many-sided | 25 | |
7415188977 | character classifications | static, developing (dynamic) | 26 | |
7415192835 | the controlling idea or central insight; a unifying generalization about life | theme | 27 | |
7415201146 | To get theme, we must determine the story's | purpose | 28 | |
7415205884 | do all stories have a theme | no | 29 | |
7415206726 | what is the theme not | the moral of the story | 30 | |
7415215325 | Theme is expressed in _____ form. | sentence | 31 | |
7415213186 | generalized | Do not over-_______ in theme statements. | 32 | |
7415211879 | A character's ______ should not be included in theme. | name | 33 | |
7415210882 | Theme should not be expressed in _______ language. | hackneyed | 34 |
AP English-Intro to Literature Flashcards
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