mdg vocab (lit terms)
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The Most Dangerous Game
Literary Terms
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Tone
• How the author/narrator feels
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Mood
• How the audience feels
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Connotation
• Emotional associations, suggestions, or implications of a word
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Denotation
• Literal, dictionary definition of a word
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Plot
• series of related events (exposition, complication, climax, resolution/denouement)
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Conflict
• struggle
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External Conflict
• man vs. man, man vs. society, man vs. nature
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Internal Conflict
• struggle in a character’s mind or heart
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Chronological Order
• Told in the order that events unfolded
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Flashback
• When writers interrupt the flow of events to present an episode from the past
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Foreshadowing
• Hints or clues that suggest what is to come in a story
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Simile
• comparison using like or as
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Direct Characterization
• What the narrator or another character tell us about a character
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Indirect Characterization
• What we learn about a character through their actions
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Fiction
• An invented or imagined story
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First person point of view
• Uses I, me, or we. The narrator is a character
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Third person point of view
• Uses he, she, they. Either follows one or two characters (limited) or is all-knowing (omniscient).
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Allusion
• A reference to a person, place, or event outside of the story
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Theme
• The main idea or the basic meaning of a work
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Satire
• A kind of writing that holds up to ridicule or contempt the weakness and wrongdoings of individuals, groups, institutions, or humanity in general.
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Protagonist
• Main character
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Antagonist
• Opposes the protagonist
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Quickwrite
• Quickwrite: Some of the most exciting narratives pit villain against hero in a life-or-death struggle. The tension in such stories often depends as much on the character of the bad guy or gal as on that of the hero. Write a few sentences describing a villain from a novel, story, or movie. Why does the character fascinate you?