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Literature
Undergraduate 1
09/01/2010

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Protagonist
Definition
-the character about whom the narrative chiefly is
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Initiation
Definition
-the protagonist grows intellectually and imaginatively so that at the end of the narrative he is wiser, nobler, and better than he was at the beginning
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Gothic
Definition
Appeals to the strange, the terrible, the macabre, the supernatural
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ANTEBELLUM
Definition
Before the civil war
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Exposition
Definition
any information presented which is outside the time span of a plot; main purpose is to provide motivation for the actions of the characters especially the protagonist
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Plot
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the arrangement of episodes according to a preconceived plan
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style
Definition
the authors use of language
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