Unit 1 Springboard Vocab Flashcards

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Archetype

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A character, symbol, story pattern, or other element that is common to human experience across cultures and that occurs frequently in literature, myth, and folklore.

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Imagery

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Descriptive or figurative language used to create word pictures in a reader’s mind.

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Setting

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Time and place where a narrative occurs

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Point-of-view

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The perspective from which a story is told. In first-person, a character tells the story from his or her own perspective. In third-person, a narrator (not a character) tells the story.

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Conflict

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A struggle between opposing forces, either internal or external. These struggles are man vs. self, man vs. man, man vs. society, and man vs. nature.

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Mood

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The overall emotion, which is created by the author’s language and tone and the subject matter.

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Protagonist

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The leading character or a major character in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.

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Plot

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The sequence of related events that make up a story, composed of five main elements: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.

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Pacing

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A narrative technique that refers to the amount of time a writer gives to describing each event and the amount of time a writer takes to develop each stage in the plot. Some events and stages are shorter or longer than others.

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Epic

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A long narrative about the deeds of heroes or gods