Norton Guide - Key Terms - Chp 1 & 2

Match the term with it's meaning.

• struggle between opposing forces

• foil

• opposing character or force

• protagonist

• neutral term from main character

• cultural norms

• shared rules and expectations in society

• conflict

• character that contrasts another

• antagonist

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• opening a plot in the middle of action

• frame narrative

• internal narrator refers to themself

• first person

• narrative that recounts another story

• flashforward

• a scene from the past is out of order

• in medias res

• a scene from the future is out of order

• flashback

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• choice of words

• third person point of view

• word order; sentence type and length

• unreliable narrator

• diff. between whats expected and happens

• syntax

• makes us view events with suspicion

• diction

• external narrator; uses she, he, they

• irony

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• exaggerated language

• denotation

• repetition of initial consonant sounds

• connotation

• attitude toward subject (or audience)

• alliteration

• emotions/thoughts associated with words

• tone

• word's direct/literal meaning

• hyperbole

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• purposely down playing real emphasis

• simile

• comparing two things with like or as

• understatement

• sensory detail used to evoke feeling etc

• imagery

• something that represents something else

• symbol

• comparison of two unlike things

• metaphor

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• meaning derived from text

• thesis statement

• overall guiding argument for essay

• allusion

• reference to outside text

• personficiation

• able to be argued against; position

• defensible

• giving nonhumans humanlike qualities

• interpretation

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• opening line that guides paragraph

• topic sentence

• layout of claims that support thesis

• commentary

• selected portions of the text in essay

• line of reasoning

• explain how evidence proves thesis

• textual evidence