english midterm review
Facts about narrators
1. not characters in the story 2. know all 3. can tell us everything about every character
4 points about 1st person narrator
1. use pronouns like I, me 2. tells us only what he or she thinks and experiences 3. biased 4. sometimes called a persona
2 points about third person limited
1. uses third person pronouns 2. tells little about the characters
flash forward
An action that jumps ahead of the story to narrate an event that happens at a later time.
ambiguity
Element of uncertainty in a text, in which something can be interpreted in a number of different ways.
subordinate character
a character in a story who is less important or has less authority than another character
dynamic character
a character that changes significantly
basic situation
a combination of circumstances or a relative position at a specific moment
dramatic monologue
a long speech in a literary work where a character expresses their thoughts, feelings, or motivations to another character or the audience
main struggle
a long-term effort to overcome a difficult situation or achieve something that causes problems
flashback
a narrative technique where the story temporarily interrupts the present timeline to show events from the past
internal conflict
a physcological struggle that occurs within a character's mind
flat character
a simple character that demonstrates a few traits
Omniscient
a type of narrator
adjective
a word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it
pronoun
a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase
adverb
a word that can modify or describe a verb, adjective, another adverb, or entire sentence
conjunction
a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause
verb
a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence (forming the main part of the predicate of the sentence)
chronological order
arrangement of events in the order they occurred (earliest to most recent)
tone
attitude a speaker or writer takes towards a subject, character, audience
foreshadowing
be a warning or indication of (a future event).
theme
central idea, or insight, about life or human behavior that a story reveals
plot
chain of related events that tells you what happened in a story
first person narrator
character in the story
characters motivation
driving force behind a character's actions and behaviors in a story
mood
emotional atmosphere or feeling that a writer creates within a story
resolution
end of story (tells us how the conflict turned out)
third person limited
gives one characters thoughts and reactions
Sololiquy
monologue or extended speech by one character
POV
perspective from which a story is told
climax
point at which the outcome of the conflict is decided (often in a surprising way)
3 kinds of irony
situational, verbal, dramatic
exposition
story's exposition introduces characters, settings, and the story's basic conflict
external conflict
struggle between a character and an outside force (another country, society, nature, situation)
characterization
the way a writer reveals a character
universal
theme that everyone can relate to
unreliable narrator
usually 1st person, biased and not truthful
situational irony definition
when an event is not just surprising but actually contrary to what we expected
verbal irony definition
when someone says one thing but means the opposite
dramatic irony definition
when the audience or the readers knows something important that the character does not know
noun
word that represents a person, thing, idea, concept, or place
preposition
words that show relationship between elements in a sentence
voice
writers distinct use of language and his or her overall style
