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Short story vocabulary
Characterization
Example : Mr Gaspy how he's really rich but doesn't belong in the rich people society.
Round Character
Examples : In finding Nemo Marlin is because we know his current , and past feelings or emotions.
Static Character
Example : The Step mom in Cinderella is a Static Character because she's mean in the beginning of the story and at the end. She doesn't change.
Dynamic Character
Example: Shrek is a Dynamic character because throughout the movie he becomes softer and lets people in his life.
Style
the particular way in which a writer uses language; created through diction (word choice) or figurative language.
Examples :A drop fell on the apple tree,
Another on the roof,
And made the gables laugh,
The breezes brought dejected lutes,
And bathed them in the glee;
And signed the fete away.
(Summer Shower by Emily Dickinson)
Iternal Conflict
Example : In William Golding’s novel “The Lord of the Flies” for example, Ralph (the leader of the “good guys”) steadily comes into conflict with Jack (a bully who later forms a “tribe” of hunters). Jack and his “tribe” give in to their savage instinct and make attempts to hunt or kill the civilized batch of boys headed by Ralph.
External Conflict
Example : In the lion king when the little lion and his uncle killed his dad and it affected him for the rest of his life.
Diction
Example : “Could you be so kind as to pass me the milk?” Vs. “Give me that!
Denotation
Example : Orange , the fruit or the color.
Connotation
Example : A dove implies peace or gentility.
First person point of view
Examples : “I gazed–and gazed–but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought.”
Third person limed point of view
Examples : It , she , it
Third person omniscient point of view
Example : J.K. Rowling uses third person limited in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. The reader witnesses what Harry sees and knows his thoughts and feelings, but without ever hearing first-person narration from Harry.
Third Person Omniscient Point of View
Examples : “Margaret, the eldest of the four, was sixteen, and very pretty, being plump and fair, with large eyes, plenty of soft brown hair, a sweet mouth, and white hands, of which she was rather vain. Fifteen-year-old Jo was very tall, thin, and brown, and reminded one of a colt…Elizabeth, or Beth, as everyone called her, was a rosy, smooth-haired, bright-eyed girl of thirteen, with a shy manner, a timid voice, and a peaceful expression, which was seldom disturbed…”
Situational Irony
Examples :
- A fire station burns down.
Verbal Irony
Example:Soft like a brick
Dramatic Irony
Dramatic Irony
when the reader or audience knows something a character doesn’t know
Example: Two people are engaged to be married but the audience knows that the man is planning to run away with another woman.
Symbol
Example : In literature, symbolism can take many forms including: A figure of speech where an object, person, or situation has another meaning other than its literal meaning. The actions of a character, word, action, or event that have a deeper meaning in the context of the whole story.
Protagonist
Examples : Hamlet in shakespeares play.
Antagonist
Example : Bob Ewell in to kill a mocking Bird.
Flat Character
Examples : Bruce the Shark