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Pacing |
Duration of particular episodes, especially relative to each other and to time they would have taken in real life. |
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Discriminated Occasion |
When author slows down to home in on a particular moment and scene, often introduced by a phrase such as "later that evening" or "the day before Maggie fell" |
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Climax |
Turning point, epiphany |
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Limited Third Person |
Single character's views and thoughts, also known as focal character or central consciousness |
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Implied author |
Not to be confused with flesh & blood person who wrote the work or the narrator who relates words top us. The perspectives and values govern whole work, including narrator |
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Foreshadowing |
Subtle hints or clues of what's to come |
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Flat character |
Don't learn anything, 1 dimensional |
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Round character |
Fleshed out, 3 dimensional |
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Stock |
Stereotype |
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Static |
Character doesn't change |
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Dynamic |
Character changes, major character |
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Archtype |
Transcends time and place; idea, symbol, character; pushing boundaries on how nature and people function; literary elements that recur in literature and myths of multiple cultures |
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Liminal space |
Threshold, such as marriage alter, grad stage; cross roads; time such as dawn, dusk, midnight; transitional; good or bad |
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Allegory |
An extended association, often sustained in every element (character, plot, setting, etc) throughout an entire work, between two levels of meaning, usually literary and abstract (animal farm allegory for revolution in Russia) |
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Allusion |
A reference, usually brief, to another text or some person or entity external to the work. |
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Irony |
A meaning or outcome contrary to what is expected; a verbal irony, a speaker or narrator says one thing and means the reverse. When the intended meaning is harshly critical or mocking, it is called sarcasm. |
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Metaphor |
A representation of one thing as if it were something else, without a verbal signal such as like or as |
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Metonymy |
Using the name of one thing to refer to another thing associated with it. The common phrase red tape is a metonym for excessive paperwork and procedure that slows down an official transaction. |
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Oxymoron |
A combination of contradictory and opposite ideas, qualities or entities, as in wise fool |
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Personification |
Sometimes called anthropomorphism, attributing human qualities to objects or animals |
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Simile |
A representation of one thing as if it were something else, with an explicit signal, such as like or as |
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Symbol |
A person, place, object or image that represents more than its literal meaning. A symbol usually associates more than 2 entities or ideas and may be obscure or ambiguous in its meaning. (Short stories may refer to the central symbolic figure in the title, such as cathedral) |
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Synedoche |
A form of metonymy (or name substitution) in which the part represents the whole (sail refers to a ship) |
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Synethesia |
Blurred senses; seeing red |
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Dramatic irony |
Audience knows something the characters do not |
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Freytag's pyramid |
Five parts of plot: exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, conclusion |
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Temporal setting |
The plot time or time in which the story takes place |
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Theme |
A general idea or insight conveyed by the work in its entirety |
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Moral |
Rule of conduct or maxim for living |