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| 4759064096 | anticlimax | an effect that spoils the climax | 0 | |
| 4759064587 | archetype | a pattern, character type, image, symbol, or motif that recurs consistently enough in literature to be considered universal | 1 | |
| 4759068590 | characterization | the method by which an author creates the appearance and personality of characters | 2 | |
| 4759069877 | confidante | someone the protagonist talks to, enabling the audience/reader to become aware of the protagonist's motivation | 3 | |
| 4759072286 | dystopia | an undesirable imaginary society | 4 | |
| 4759073036 | explication de texte | the detailed analysis or close reading of verse or prose | 5 | |
| 4759073931 | incident | an event or episode that moves the plot forward | 6 | |
| 4759074905 | motif | a recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation that appears in a literary work or throughout various works | 7 | |
| 4759077765 | motivation | the impulses and circumstances that cause a character to act, think, or feel a certain way | 8 | |
| 4759078883 | narrative voice | the attitude, personality, or character of the narrator | 9 | |
| 4759079854 | point of view | the vantage point from which a story is told; the eye and mind through which the action is perceived and filtered | 10 | |
| 4759082680 | 1st person pov | story is told by a character who uses the 1st person pronoun "I" (no insight is given into other characters' thoughts or motives) | 11 | |
| 4759086323 | 3rd person objective pov | characters' behavior and actions are not interpreted; no private thoughts or feelings are revealed; the reader only experiences the characters' words and actions | 12 | |
| 4759092387 | 3rd person omniscient pov | narrator is free to tell what characters think and feel and why they act as they do | 13 | |
| 4759096822 | 3rd person limited pov | narrator tells only what one character feels, thinks, sees, or hears | 14 | |
| 4759101249 | reliability | the extent to which a narrator can be trusted or believed | 15 | |
| 4759101910 | stereotype | a character who represents a trait generally attributed to a social or racial group | 16 | |
| 4759103265 | subplot | a secondary series of events that are subordinate to the main story | 17 | |
| 4759104392 | suspense | quality that makes the reader or audience tense or uncertain about the outcome of events | 18 | |
| 4759105927 | suspension of disbelief | the demand made of an audience/reader to use imagination and accept limits of reality, staging, and plot | 19 | |
| 4759108856 | symbol | anything that represents something beyond itself (one things stands for another) | 20 | |
| 4759109838 | theme | the message about life and the human experience that is sent via a literary work; the life lesson portrayed through reading a literary work | 21 | |
| 4759112148 | utopia | a desirable, imaginary society | 22 |
