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World Lit Final Exam
Final Exam
22
English
10th Grade
12/12/2011

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Protagonist
Definition
main character, focus on story
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Antagonist 
Definition
may also be major character but goes against protagonist
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Static Characters
Definition
Change very little or not at all during the course of the story
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Round Characters
Definition
presented as complex individuals;cannot capture them in a single word or phrase.
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Flat characters 
Definition
are easily summed up
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Caricature
Definition
extreme exaggeration of one or several human characteristics.
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Characterization
Definition
ways the author communicates the natures of the people in the story.
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Direct characterization
Definition
features overt statements about character's backgrounds, motives,and personalities.
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Indirect characterization
Definition
reveals characters through their actions and statements
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Setting 
Definition
story's placement in time and space entails both physical and cultural contex.
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Poetic fiction
Definition
emphasizes characteristics often associated with poetry.
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style
Definition
elusive term used to denote an authors characteristic choices.
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 3rd person omniscient
Definition
all knowing narrator who can describe everything that happens and may reveal all of the character's thoughts and feelings
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3rd person limited
Definition
a narrator who sees the world through a single character's eyes and reveals only what that character is experiencing, thinking, and feeling.
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order of a Hero's journey
Definition

1. World of commmon day- home

2.Call to adventure

3. Refusal of the call

4. meeting with the mentor

5.crossing the 1st threshold

6.Tests allies and enemies

7. Approach to inmost cave

8.Supreme Ordeal

9. Reward

10. Road back

11. Threshold crossing

12. Return with elixir

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Personification
Definition
given human like characteristics
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Oxymoron
Definition
comparison of 2 unlikely items
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Simile
Definition
comparison using words like or as 
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diction
Definition
words used to create overall style
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Order of the plot
Definition

Expostition: introduces the reader

Rising Action:Conflict emerges and builds in the rising action

Climax: high point of the action

Falling Action:includes consequences of the climax

Denouement:completes resolution and closes the story

Conflict:struggle between 2 or more characters.

 

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