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| 2896186230 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 0 | |
| 2896187906 | Allusion | a statement that refers to something without mentioning it directly | 1 | |
| 2896193979 | Antagonist | a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary | 2 | |
| 2896200197 | Archetype | the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based | 3 | |
| 2896203641 | Climax | the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex | 4 | |
| 2896207815 | Comedy | the humorous or amusing aspects of something. | 5 | |
| 2896212220 | Confidant | a character in a story that the lead character (protagonist) confides in and trusts. Typically, these consist of the best friend, relative, doctor or boss. | 6 | |
| 2896218813 | Conflict | any struggle between opposing forces Usually, the main character struggles against some other force | 7 | |
| 2896228969 | Cosmic Irony | gods (or the Fates) are amusing themselves by toying with the minds of mortals with deliberate ironic intent | 8 | |
| 2896230653 | Crisis | a peak moment of tension in the action of a work, the moment of highest indecision | 9 | |
| 2896235462 | Denouement | the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved. | 10 | |
| 2896240856 | Dialogue | conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie. | 11 | |
| 2896243176 | Diction | the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing. | 12 | |
| 2896246657 | Direct Characterization | tells the audience what the personality of the character is. | 13 | |
| 2896248792 | Dramatic Irony | irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play | 14 | |
| 2896259823 | Dynamic Character | character who changes throughout the course of a story as a result of the conflicts they encounter on their journey | 15 | |
| 2896263181 | Epiphany | a moment of sudden revelation or insight | 16 | |
| 2896266222 | Exposition | a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory | 17 | |
| 2896269819 | Fiction | literature in the form of prose, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people | 18 | |
| 2896271901 | First Person | story is narrated by one character at a time. This character may be speaking about him or herself or sharing events that he or she is experiencing. Recognized by the use of I or we. | 19 | |
| 2896285116 | Flashback | a scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story | 20 | |
| 2896289186 | Flat Character | two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of a work | 21 | |
| 2896293569 | Foreshadowing | be a warning or indication of a future event | 22 | |
| 2896296796 | Genre | a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter. | 23 | |
| 2896302814 | Imagery | descriptive sensory language, including details of taste, touch, sight, smell, and sound | 24 | |
| 2896307509 | Indirect Characterization | narrator shows the reader something about the character through the character's actions, things the character says, or things other characters say | 25 | |
| 2896311626 | In Medias Res | in or into the middle of a narrative or plot | 26 | |
| 2896316967 | Irony | a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result | 27 | |
| 2896321795 | Horatian | form of satire where writer playfully criticizes some social vice through gentle, mild, and light-hearted humour | 28 | |
| 2896335413 | Juvenilian | form of satire where writer is more contemptuous and abrasive and actively attacks them through his literature | 29 | |
| 2896353360 | Limited Omniscient Point of View | narrator knows all the thoughts, actions, and feelings of all characters | 30 | |
| 2896355873 | Minimalist | a style or technique (as in music, literature, or design) that is characterized by extreme spareness and simplicity | 31 | |
| 2896369254 | Motif | a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition | 32 | |
| 2896373626 | Motivation | reason why characters do what they do | 33 | |
| 2896379144 | Narrator | A person who tells a story; in literature, the voice that an author takes on to tell a story | 34 | |
| 2896386222 | Objective Point of View | The third person narrator relates only what we can see and hear, without giving access to the thoughts and feelings of any of the characters | 35 | |
| 2896392128 | Omniscient Point of View | narrator is a character in the story, but also knows the thoughts and feelings of all the other characters | 36 | |
| 2896398055 | Plot | the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence | 37 | |
| 2896401250 | Point of View | the narrator's position in relation to the story being told | 38 | |
| 2896420378 | Protagonist | the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text | 39 | |
| 2896423521 | Round Character | characters that are complex and undergo development, sometimes sufficiently to surprise the reader | 40 | |
| 2896428131 | Setting | the place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place | 41 | |
| 2896433114 | Short Story | a story with a fully developed theme but significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel | 42 | |
| 2896437439 | Situational Irony | irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected | 43 | |
| 2896446412 | Static Character | literary or dramatic character who undergoes little or no inner change; a character who does not grow or develop | 44 | |
| 2896450054 | Stock Character | stereotypical person whom audiences readily recognize from frequent recurrences in a particular literary tradition; archetypal characters distinguished by their flatness; as a result, they tend to be easy targets for parody and to be criticized as clichés | 45 | |
| 2896458445 | Story of Initiation | story whose overall plot is concerned with putting the protagonist through a particular sort of experience - beginning something for which his/her previous experience had not prepared him/her | 46 | |
| 2896468493 | Stream of Consciousness | a literary style in which a character's thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue | 47 | |
| 2896478296 | Style | describes the ways that the author uses words — the author's word choice, sentence structure, figurative language, and sentence arrangement all work together to establish mood, images, and meaning in the text | 48 | |
| 2896485231 | Symbol/Symbolism | A figure of speech where an object, person, or situation has another meaning other than its literal meaning | 49 | |
| 2896489571 | Syntax | the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language | 50 | |
| 2896493149 | Theme | an idea that recurs in or pervades a work of art or literature | 51 | |
| 2896498323 | Third Person | point of view and uses pronouns like he, she, it, or they | 52 | |
| 2896512081 | Tragedy | a series of unfortunate events by which one or more of the literary characters in the story undergo several misfortunes, which finally culminate into a disaster of 'epic proportions' | 53 | |
| 2896520427 | Tone | the perspective or attitude that the author adopts with regards to a specific character, place or development | 54 | |
| 2896529079 | Unreliable Narrator | character whose telling of the story is not completely accurate or credible due to problems with the character's mental state or maturity | 55 | |
| 2896536625 | Verbal Irony | use of vocabulary to describe something in a way that is other than it seems; often is used with a sarcastic tone or nature | 56 |
