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| 10510020283 | allegory | a form of extended metaphor in which objects and personas in a narrative, either in prose or verse, are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself | 0 | |
| 10510021745 | allusion | an indirect reference, often to another text or a historic event | 1 | |
| 10510022724 | anticlimax | a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events | 2 | |
| 10510023599 | antihero | a protagonist (main character) who is markedly unheroic: morally weak, cowardly, dishonest, or any number of other unsavory qualities | 3 | |
| 10510027899 | atmosphere | the emotional tone or background that surrounds a scene | 4 | |
| 10510029250 | detail | the items or parts that make up a larger picture or story | 5 | |
| 10510029912 | diction | word choice | 6 | |
| 10510030349 | syntax | sentence structure | 7 | |
| 10510030889 | elements of short stories | character, irony, theme, symbol, plot, setting | 8 | |
| 10510031509 | first-person narrator | a narrator within the story who tells the story from the "I" perspective | 9 | |
| 10510032369 | foreshadowing | an even of statement in a narrative that in miniature suggests a larger event that comes later | 10 | |
| 10510033169 | genre | a type of literature | 11 | |
| 10510033646 | gothic (novel) | form first showed up in the middle of the 1700s, heyday of popularity of sixty years: mysterious, gloomy, sinister | 12 | |
| 10510034966 | in medias res | in or into the middle of a plot; into the middle of things | 13 | |
| 10510035895 | interior monologue | writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character's head | 14 | |
| 10510036606 | irony | conveys a reality different and usually opposite to appearance or expectation | 15 | |
| 10510037013 | juxtaposition | placement of two things side by side for emphasis | 16 | |
| 10510037540 | lampoon | a written satire used to ridicule or attack someone | 17 | |
| 10510037907 | motif | a recurring symbol | 18 | |
| 10510040408 | narrative techniques | the methods employed in the telling of a story or an account (point of view, manipulation of time, dialogue, and internal monologue) | 19 | |
| 10510041198 | nemesis | the protagonist's archenemy or supreme and persistent difficulty | 20 | |
| 10510041939 | omniscient narrator | a narrator who is able to know, see, and tell all, including the inner thoughts and feelings of the characters | 21 | |
| 10510043146 | parable | like a fable or an allegory, a story that instructs | 22 | |
| 10510043616 | parody | a piece that imitates and exaggerates the prominent features of another; used for comic effect or ridicule | 23 | |
| 10510044730 | persona | the speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing | 24 | |
| 10510045934 | point of view | the relation in which the narrator stands to a subject of discourse. In literature, the perspective from which the story is told | 25 | |
| 10510046641 | protagonist | the main character of a novel or play | 26 | |
| 10510047241 | satire | a literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies | 27 | |
| 10510048212 | setting | physical location of a play, story, or novel, which often includes information about time and place | 28 | |
| 10510049103 | stock characters | standard or cliched character types, such as drunk, the miser, and the foolish girl | 29 | |
| 10510051509 | stream of consciousness | a style of writing that portrays the inner(often chaotic) workings of a character's mind | 30 | |
| 10510054095 | style | the choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work | 31 | |
| 10510054584 | suspension of disbelief | the demand made of a theater audience to accept the limitations of staging and supply the details with their imagination | 32 | |
| 10510055612 | symbol | something that stands for something else | 33 | |
| 10510055866 | theme | main idea of the overall work; central idea | 34 | |
| 10510056230 | tone | the manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude; the intonation of the voice that expresses meaning | 35 | |
| 10510059802 | travesty | a grossly inferior imitation; grotesque parody | 36 | |
| 10510060458 | unreliable narrator | a narrator whose account of events appears to be faulty, misleadingly biased, or otherwise distorted | 37 | |
| 10510061428 | verisimilitude | the appearance of being true or real | 38 | |
| 10510061849 | antagonist | a character or force in conflict with the main character | 39 |
