Jill's Unit 3 Quiz
Definitions and terms in unit three in WIR
Terms
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- direct description
- describing the physical features, dress, and personality, of the character
- conflict
- struggle between two forces
- static character
- character who does not change durig the course of the story
- protagonist
- main character
- short story
- a breif work of fiction
- novel
- a long work of fiction
- historical fiction
- partly real and partly made up
- fiction
- a genre of writing that tells an invented or imaginary character
- major character
- a character with a significant role in a story
- romances
- tales that feature the adventures of legendary figures
- falling action
- the events that follow the climax
- minor character
- a character that does not play a big role in a story
- science fiction
- imaginative literature based on scientific princliples,discoveries, or laws
- dynamic character
- character that does change during the course of the story
- inciting incident
- event that introduces a central conflict
- antagonist
- a character who struggles with the main character
- rising action
- toward a high point of intensity
- plot
- series of events related to a central conflict
- de'nouement
- any material that follows the resolution and that ties up loose ends
- internal state
- revealing the character's private thoughts and emotions