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| 79646868 | Fiction | a name for stories not entirely factual, but at least partially shaped, made-up, imagined | 0 | |
| 79646869 | exposition | the opening portion that sets the scene, introduces the main characters, tells what happened before the story began, and provides any other necessary information for the set up | 1 | |
| 79646870 | epiphany | some moment of insight, discovery, or revelation by which a character's life, or view of life, is greatly altered | 2 | |
| 79646871 | setting | the environment in which the story takes place | 3 | |
| 79646872 | scene | a vivid or dramatic moment described in enough detail to make the reader feel like he/she is practically there | 4 | |
| 79646873 | fable | a story that sets forth a pointed statement of truth | 5 | |
| 79646874 | literary fiction | not your typical story; one must read actively to understand; often tells the main happening in the beginning and then spends the rest of the stroy telling what that happening meant | 6 | |
| 79646875 | plot | the artistic arrangements of events in a story | 7 | |
| 79646876 | conclusion (resolution; denouncement) | the outcome | 8 | |
| 79646877 | climax | the moment of greatest tension in which the outcome is to be decided | 9 | |
| 79646878 | crisis | moment of high tension | 10 | |
| 79646879 | short story | more modern and realistic than the tale; vivid scenes- shows rather than tells | 11 | |
| 79646880 | tall tale | tells the story of a superhero or the author himself | 12 | |
| 79646881 | short novel (novelette; novella) | midway in length between a short story and a novel | 13 | |
| 79646882 | tetralogy | a sequence of four novels | 14 | |
| 79646883 | trilogy | a group of three novels in a sequence | 15 | |
| 79646884 | picaresque novel | a likeable scoundrel wanders through a series of adventures, living by his wits and duping the straight citizenry | 16 | |
| 79646885 | apprenticeship novel | where a youth struggles toward maturity, seeking, perhaps, some consistent worldview or philosophy of life | 17 | |
| 79646886 | historical novel | a detailed reconstruction of life in another time, perhaps another place | 18 | |
| 79646887 | nonfiction novel | the author presents actual people and events in story form | 19 | |
| 79646888 | epistolatory novel | a story told through a series of letters | 20 | |
| 79646889 | romance | (originally called that because they were written in romance languages) an idealized love story of noble heroes and heroines | 21 | |
| 79646890 | novel | a book-length story in prose, whose author tries to create the sense that, while we read, we experience actual life | 22 | |
| 79646891 | fairy tale | somewhat modern (last 200-ish years) stories set in a world of magic and enchantment | 23 | |
| 79646892 | dramatic situation | the conflict in a story; any clash of wills, desires, or powers; can be character vs. character, character vs. society, or character vs. a natural power or supernatural entity | 24 | |
| 79646893 | tale | a brief story that sets forth strange and wonderful events in a more or less bare summary, without detailed character drawing | 25 | |
| 79646894 | foreshadowing | indication of the events to come; used to incite anticipation in stories | 26 | |
| 79646895 | antagonist | one who strives against or competes with the protagonist | 27 | |
| 79646896 | suspense | the pleasureable anxiety we feel that heightens our attention to the story | 28 | |
| 79646897 | moral | an important message in a story that the readers are supposed to understand | 29 | |
| 79646898 | summary | terse, general narration | 30 | |
| 79646899 | flashback (retrospect) | a scene relived in a character's memory | 31 | |
| 79646900 | in medias res | "in the midst of things"; starting after a significant moment or somewhere in the middle of the plot and telling what happened before | 32 | |
| 79646901 | story of initiation | a story about an experience that made a character more mature (ex: coming of age) | 33 | |
| 79646902 | complication | a new conflict | 34 | |
| 79646903 | protagonist | the principle person who strives | 35 | |
| 79649562 | bildungsroman | a story of growth or development | 36 | |
| 80753477 | narrator | speaker | 37 | |
| 80753478 | point of view | the part that the narrator plays in a story, the limits placed on his knowledge, and his participation in events | 38 | |
| 80753479 | participating narrator | a dramatized character who says "I"; can be protagonist or observer (1st person) | 39 | |
| 80753480 | observer | a minor character standing a little to one side, watching a story unfold that mainly concerns someone else | 40 | |
| 80753481 | nonparticipating narrator | one who does not appear in the story as a character; says "he, she, they" (3rd person) | 41 | |
| 80753482 | omniscient narrator | sees into the minds of all (or some) characters, moving when necessary from one to the other | 42 | |
| 80753483 | editorial omniscience | the narrator adds an occasional comment or opinion | 43 | |
| 80753484 | impartial omniscience | the narrator presents the thoughts and actions of the characters, but doesn't judge them or comment on them | 44 | |
| 80753485 | limited/selective omniscience | when the narrator sees events through the eyes of a single character, whether a major or minor one | 45 | |
| 80753486 | objective point of view | the narrator doesn't enter the mind of any character but describes the events from the outside (said to disappear) | 46 | |
| 80753487 | innocent/naive narrator | fails to understand the implications of the story | 47 | |
| 80753488 | unreliable narrator | a person who is deceptive or deranged | 48 | |
| 80753489 | stream of consciousness | selective omniscience: the presentation of thoughts and sense impressions in a lifelike fashion- not in a logical sequence; usually occurs in relatively short passages | 49 | |
| 80753490 | interior monologue | an extended presentation of a character's thoughts, like a character was speakingoiutloud to himself for us to overhear | 50 | |
| 80753491 | total omniscience | a knowledge of the minds of all the characters | 51 | |
| 80753492 | evaluating a story | to consider a story and place a value on it | 52 | |
| 80753493 | conventions | certain usual devices and features of a literary work, by which we can recognize its kind | 53 | |
| 80753494 | gothic story | atmosphere is essantial: dusty halls, shadowy landscapes, whispering servants, ominous mansions | 54 | |
| 80753495 | sentimentality | a defect in a work where the author seems to feel tremendous emotion and implies that we too should feel it, but does not supply us with enough reason to share such feelings | 55 | |
| 83980365 | verbal irony | where the speaker's meaning is far from the usual meaning of her words (sarcasm) | 56 | |
| 83980366 | ironic point of view | when there is a sharp distinction between the narrator of a story and the author (when the narrator is telling us something that we are clearly expected to doubt or interpret differently) | 57 | |
| 83980367 | irony of fate/ cosmic irony | suggests that a malicious fate or spirit is deliberately frustrating human efforts (someone stuck and important letter under the door and it slid under the rug, never to be received) | 58 | |
| 83980368 | theme | whatever general idea or insight that the entire story reveals (the larger realizatio that the stroy leaves with us)- could be what the story is about, not jsut the message/moral; usually states in general terms; different than people and events- it is the center, moving force | 59 | |
| 83980369 | explication | the patient unfolding of meanings in a work of literature; proceeds through a story interpreting it line by line; notices anything meaningful that isn't obvious (them suggested by a symbol, little hint in a single word, etc.) | 60 | |
| 83980370 | analysis | separates a story into its component parts then selects (usually) a single part for close study | 61 | |
| 83980371 | comparison | placing two stories (or two parts of one story) side by side and pointing out their similarities | 62 | |
| 83980372 | contrast | pointing out differences | 63 | |
| 85416273 | symbol | a thing that suggests more than its literal meaning; indefinite multimlicity of meanings (not one fixed meaning); tend not to be abstract things (like love of truth) but perceptible objects; says more fully and memorably than could be said in a lot of words | 64 | |
| 85416274 | allegory | a story in which persons, places, and things form a system of clearly labeled equivalents | 65 | |
| 85416275 | symbolic act | a gesture with larger significance than usual | 66 | |
| 85416276 | symbol recognizing tips | mentioned repeatedly, may supply the story with its title, may open or close the story. **an object or an act is surely symbolic if we realize at the end that it was that particular item which led us to the author's theme, the essential meaning | 67 |
