Norton Guide - Key Terms - Chp 1 & 2

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• character that contrasts another

• conflict

• struggle between opposing forces

• antagonist

• opposing character or force

• cultural norms

• shared rules and expectations in society

• foil

• neutral term from main character

• protagonist

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• a scene from the past is out of order

• frame narrative

• internal narrator refers to themself

• in medias res

• narrative that recounts another story

• flashforward

• a scene from the future is out of order

• first person

• opening a plot in the middle of action

• flashback

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• external narrator; uses she, he, they

• syntax

• makes us view events with suspicion

• diction

• choice of words

• third person point of view

• word order; sentence type and length

• irony

• diff. between whats expected and happens

• unreliable narrator

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• exaggerated language

• alliteration

• repetition of initial consonant sounds

• connotation

• word's direct/literal meaning

• denotation

• emotions/thoughts associated with words

• hyperbole

• attitude toward subject (or audience)

• tone

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• sensory detail used to evoke feeling etc

• simile

• comparing two things with like or as

• metaphor

• purposely down playing real emphasis

• understatement

• something that represents something else

• imagery

• comparison of two unlike things

• symbol

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• giving nonhumans humanlike qualities

• interpretation

• reference to outside text

• thesis statement

• meaning derived from text

• allusion

• overall guiding argument for essay

• personficiation

• able to be argued against; position

• defensible

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• opening line that guides paragraph

• line of reasoning

• layout of claims that support thesis

• textual evidence

• selected portions of the text in essay

• commentary

• explain how evidence proves thesis

• topic sentence