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This is where most stories begin. During the exposition, the setting is described and major characters are introduced. |
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Three basic types of linear, or sequential, plots |
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Chronological order
Flashback
In medias res |
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A device in which human characteristics are given to something nonhuman. |
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Relating to a style of fiction that has grotesque, desolate, and mysterious themes and descriptions |
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Imagery
Metaphor
Simile
Personification |
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| What are the characteristics of regionalist fiction? |
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Specific setting
Dialect
Detailed description
Frame story
Characters
Narrator
Plot
Theme |
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Realism is an artistic movement in which artists and writers represent objects, events, or social conditions as they really are. |
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Naturalism, an extension of the Realism movement, also rejected the idealism of the Romantic movement. |
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| Demonstrates a range of human qualities typical of actual human being |
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| The character who opposes or works against the protagonist |
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Climax
Rising Action
Falling Action
Exposition
Resolution |
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The dramatic Struggle between two forces in a story, without conflict there is no plot. |
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| Deprived of sensation; numb |
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| A speech made by a character who is alone and speaks private thoughts as if the audience were not there. |
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| The problem created when one character opposes another. |
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| The problem created when a character wrestles with inner emotions. |
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| The everyday language spoken by a people as distinguished from the literary language |
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Infliction of punishment in return for a wrong committed; retribution.
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| A character who serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities. |
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