nicolle's literary terms
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- flashback
- abreak in the continuity of a story to introdruce an earlier event the critical pont ine story which changes the coures of events
- mood
- the feeling or state of mind that predominates in a sstory creating a certain atmosphere
- omniscent p.of v.
- if the author stands outside of the story and kdnows what each of the characters is doing of thinking at any given moment
- theme
- the main idea of the story its generalized mesning a ststement about life or human mature which the author seeks to prove through specific developments of the story
- foreshadow
- a hint or clue to futre evebts in the story
- point of view
- the position from which the story is told (as seen through whose eyes?) 1st person 2nd person or 3rd person AND 2 other types personal p.of v. and omniscient p.of v.
- science fiction
- writing that tells about imaginary events that involve science or technology
- plot
- the story line: a unifed progressive pattern of action or events in a story
- setting
- the time and place of the action in a story
- personal p.of v.
- if told as seen through the eyes of one of the characters in the story