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  • what is the type of setting? weather, indoors outdoors, part of the day
    physical
  • what is this ? when a character struggles with their own opposing desires or beliefs. It happens within them, and it drives their development as a character.
    internal conflict
  • what can u say about victorian gentelmen clubs?
    high class, free time, affairs
  • __character grows and changes in the course of a story, developing as he or she reacts to events and to other characters.
    dynamic
  • what is the imagery? “She walked into the abandoned home and caught the scent of mothballs. The pungent odor immediately transported her back to her grandmother’s attic, riddled with tattered leather jackets and walls of cardboard boxes.”
    olfactory
  • What is the type of the setting? A particular historical period, and the events and customs associated with it, can be important to your understanding of a story; therefore, some knowledge of the period in which a story is set may be useful
    historical
  • Who is this?
    Ray Bradbury
  • ________ a usually traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to unfold part of the world view of a people or explain a practice, belief, or natural phenomenon
    myth
  • Name the title of the story Three teenage girls, wearing only their bathing suits, walk into an grocery store in a small New England town. Sammy, a young man working the checkout line, watches them closely.
    A and P
  • - a narrative mode or method that attempts "to depict multiple thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind" of a narrator.
    Stream-of-consciousness
  • is a person , object, action, place , or event that, in addition to its literal meaning, suggests a more complex meaning or range of meanings.
    symbol
  • What can u say about lost generation?
    authors of WW1 , no hopes, plans for future, depression
  • There areaa type of third-person point of view: _________ in which the narrator knows all of the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story
    omniscient
  • An example of _________ is saying, "Oh, fantastic!" when the situation is actually very poor.
    verbal irony
  • What is butterfly effect?
    a property of chaotic systems (such as the atmosphere) by which small changes in initial conditions can lead to large-scale and unpredictable variation in the
  • Name the title and the author: is a short story about a woman and her diaries which she leaves behind for her husband before she commits suicide.
    Legacy by Virginia Woolf
  • is a literary technique that introduces a radical change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot in a work of fiction.
    plot twist
  • What is a technique used here : Grand the watch was.
    fronting
  • Name the title and the author The narrator is driving to London in his new BMW 1975 car when he picks up a hitchhiker. The narrator always used to pick up hitchhikers since, in early times, he also used to hitchhike
    Hitchhicker by R.Dahl
  • ______is a supporting character whose role in the story is to highlight a major character by presenting a contrast with him or her.
    foil
  • What is the plot? it may simply involve a character changing their ways and becoming a better person, resulting in a happy ending.
    rebirth
  • ____is  the  repeating  of  a  word  or  phrase
    repetition
  • make an example of a simile
    :)
  • Name 5 stages of the plot from the first attempt
    exposition rising action climax resolution
  • What is this? It builds suspense by raising questions that encourage the reader to go on and find out more about the event that is being to come.
    foreshadowing