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| 5305445514 | Antagonist | person or force working against protagonist | 0 | |
| 5305448676 | Anthropomorphism | an animal that takes on human characteristics such as (walking, talking, etc...) | 1 | |
| 5305448677 | Antihero | a protagonist in a modern work who does not exhibit the qualities of the traditional hero | 2 | |
| 5305448968 | Archetype | a detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to be considered universal | 3 | |
| 5305448969 | Aside | in drama, a convention by which actors speak briefly to the audience, supposedly without being heard by the other actors on stage | 4 | |
| 5305449338 | Bildungsroman | a novel that recounts the development (psychological and sometimes spiritual) of an individual from childhood to maturity, to the point at which the protagonist recognizes his or her place and role in the world | 5 | |
| 5305449339 | Caricature | the exaggeration of specific features of appearance or personality | 6 | |
| 5305449613 | Catharsis | the emotional effect a tragic drama has on its audience; a "cleansing"; Aristotle said tragedy provided the audience with the opportunity to purge the emotions of pity and fear | 7 | |
| 5305450437 | Flat Characters | a figure in literature defined by a single idea or quality | 8 | |
| 5305450438 | Round Characters | a figure in literature that have the three-dimensional complexity of real people | 9 | |
| 5305450439 | Static Characters | a figure in literature that don't change significantly over the course of a work | 10 | |
| 5305450701 | Dynamic Characters | a figure in literature that change in response to circumstance and experience | 11 | |
| 5305451343 | Characterization | various means by which an author describes and develop the characters in a literary work | 12 | |
| 5305451344 | Direct Characterization | characterization by narrator's description | 13 | |
| 5305451345 | Indirect Characterization | charaterization by characters' actions, dialogue, other characters' comments about them | 14 | |
| 5305451743 | Dialogue | conversation between two or more characters in a literary work | 15 | |
| 5305451744 | Epiphany | a moment of sudden revelation or insight | 16 | |
| 5305452392 | Foil | a character who, by his contrast with the main character, serves to accentuate that character's distinctive qualities or characteristics | 17 | |
| 5305452393 | Hubris | excessive pride that constitutes the protagonist's tragic flaw and leads to his/her downfall | 18 | |
| 5305452394 | Narrator | a speaker through whom an author presents a narrative, often but not always a character in the work | 19 | |
| 5305452674 | Protagonist | character around which the action is centered | 20 | |
| 5305453225 | Soliloquy | a speech in which a character, alone on a stage, addresses him/herself; it is a "thinking out loud", a dramatic means of letting an audience know a character's thoughts/feelings or some other important information | 21 | |
| 5305453659 | Tragic Hero | the central character in a tragedy who experiences a tragic downfall. the tragic hero has a tragic flaw which is the error, misstep, frailty, or flaw that causes the downfall of the tragic hero (also referred to as hamartia). | 22 |
