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Elements of Fiction Scramble

Elements of Fiction Scramble. Plot. A series of related events p. 2. Conflict. A struggle p. 2. External Conflict. Struggle that takes place between two characters, between a character and a group, or between a character and something nonhuman p.2. Internal Conflict.

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Elements of Fiction Scramble

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  1. Elements of Fiction Scramble

  2. Plot A series of related events p. 2

  3. Conflict A struggle p. 2

  4. External Conflict Struggle that takes place between two characters, between a character and a group, or between a character and something nonhuman p.2

  5. Internal Conflict A struggle that takes place inside a character’s mind or heart p.2

  6. Exposition The first part of the plot The basic situation The opening/introduction of the story where characters and conflicts are introduced p. 2

  7. Complication or Rising Action A complication or initial conflict in the story The main character takes some action to resolve this problem, but meets with more problems or conflicts p. 2

  8. Climax The third part of the story The key scene of the story Emotional involvement is the greatest A story’s turning point p. 2

  9. Falling Action Details how the climax of the plot affects a story and its characters; all of the events that lead to the last part of any story or novel.

  10. Resolution The final part of the story All struggles are over Sometimes called denouement “unraveling of the knot” p. 2

  11. Foreshadowing Use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in a plot p. 1024

  12. Character Person in a story, poem, or play p. 1020

  13. Characterization The process of revealing the personality of a character in a story p. 1020

  14. Characterization Methods Character’s Speech Physical Description of Character Character’s Thoughts/Feelings What Other’s Think/Say about Character Character’s Actions Direct description of character’s personality p. 1020

  15. Indirect Characterization Readers have to use their own judgment to decide what a character is like, based on the evidence an author has given p. 1021

  16. Direct Characterization The author directly tells readers what a character is like; readers do not have to use their own judgment p. 1021

  17. Setting The time and place of a story or play p. 1029

  18. Flashback Scene that interrupts the present action of the plot to flash backward and tell what happened at an earlier time p. 1023

  19. Irony A contrast between expectation and reality p. 1025

  20. Verbal Irony Writer/speaker says one thing but really means something completely different p. 1025

  21. Situational Irony There is a contrast between what we expect to happen in a situation and what actually happens p. 1025

  22. Dramatic Irony The audience/reader knows something important characters in a story do not know p. 1025

  23. Personification A kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human p. 1027

  24. Allusion Reference to a statement, person, place, or an event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or pop culture p. 1019

  25. Alliteration Repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds usually at the beginnings of words that are close together in a poem p. 1019

  26. Metaphor Makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of the word like, as, than, or resembles p. 1025

  27. Simile Comparison between two unlike things using a word such as like, as, or than p. 1030

  28. Tone Attitude a writer takes toward a subject, a character, or the audience p. 1031

  29. Mood A story’s atmosphere or the feeling it evokes in the READER p. 1026

  30. Diction A writer or speaker’s choice of words p. 1022

  31. Dialect Way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or a particular group of people p. 1022

  32. Protagonist Main character of a story p. 1028

  33. Antagonist Character or force that blocks the protagonist p. 1028

  34. Imagery • Language that appeals to the senses p. 1025 • sight, touch, sound, taste, smell

  35. Five Types of Imagery Aural/Auditory (sound) Gustatory (taste) Tactile (touch) Visual (sight) Olfactory (smell)

  36. Theme • Central idea of a work of literature p. 1031 • MUST ALWAYS BE EXPRESSED IN A COMPLETE SENTENCE

  37. Symbol Person, place, thing, or event that stands for itself and something beyond itself as well p. 1031

  38. Connotation All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests p. 1021

  39. Denotation Strict dictionary meaning/definition of a word p. 1021

  40. Author The writer of a literary work p. 1020

  41. Speaker Voice that is talking to a reader in a poem p. 1030

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