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| 8423561743 | Allegory | A narrative or description having a second or symbolic meaning beneath the surface one | 0 | |
| 8423574202 | Allusion | A reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history | 1 | |
| 8423612430 | anecdote | a short account of an interesting or humorous incident | 2 | |
| 8423627136 | Artistic Unity | that condition of a successful literary work where by all its elements work together for the achievement of its central purpose | 3 | |
| 8423662344 | Cacophony | a harsh discordant unpleasant sounding choice in arrangement of words | 4 | |
| 8423675665 | Euphony | a smooth pleasant sounding choice and arrangement of sounds | 5 | |
| 8423689188 | Genre | A type or class as poetry, drama etc | 6 | |
| 8423704746 | Imagery | the representation through language of sensory experience | 7 | |
| 8423715508 | Mood | the pervading impression of a work | 8 | |
| 8423726717 | prose | non metrical language (the opposite of verse) | 9 | |
| 8423754054 | Theme | the main idea or message of a literary work | 10 | |
| 8423771102 | Tone | The writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject, the audience, or him/herself | 11 | |
| 8423791223 | Setting | The context in time and place in which the action occurs | 12 | |
| 8423796805 | Symbol | Something that means more than what it is; an object, person, situation, or action that in addition to its literal meaning suggests other meanings | 13 | |
| 8423810485 | Verse | Metrical language, the opposite of prose | 14 | |
| 8423813846 | Voice | The distinctive style or manner or expression of an author or a character in a book | 15 | |
| 8423828235 | Motif | Reoccurring action of images in a work to convey theme | 16 | |
| 8423844614 | Antagonist | Character in a story or poem who opposes the main character. | 17 | |
| 8423858713 | Character | any of the persons involved in a story or play | 18 | |
| 8423877279 | Characterization | the process of conveying information about characters | 19 | |
| 8423889607 | Direct presentation of character | a method of characterization in which the author by exposition or analysis tells us directly what a character is like | 20 | |
| 8423908699 | Dynamic Character | a character who during the course of a story undergoes a permanent change in some aspect or outlook of character | 21 | |
| 8423923758 | Flat character | a character whose character is summed up in one or two trait. | 22 | |
| 8423946681 | foil | a character who contrasts with another character in order to highlight various features of that other character's personality | 23 | |
| 8423959427 | hero | a man who is endowed with great courage and strength | 24 | |
| 8423982082 | Hubris | Overbearing and excessive pride | 25 | |
| 8423992510 | Indirect presentation of character | That method of characterization in which the author shows us a character in action, compelling us to infer what the character is like | 26 | |
| 8424002755 | Protagonist | The main character | 27 | |
| 8424006061 | Round character | A character whose character is complex and many sided | 28 | |
| 8424010661 | Static character | A character who is the same sort of person through the entire work | 29 | |
| 8424015726 | Stock character | A stereotyped character | 30 | |
| 8424020088 | Tragic flaw | A flaw in the character of the protagonist of a tragedy that brings the protagonist to ruin or sorrow | 31 | |
| 8424031645 | Exposition | The part of a play (usually at the beginning) that provides the background information needed to understand the characters and the actions | 32 | |
| 8424043089 | Conflict | A clash of actions, desires, ideas, or goals in the plot of a story or drama | 33 | |
| 8424052850 | Rising action | The development of plot in a story that precedes and leads up to the climax | 34 | |
| 8424063119 | Climax | The turning point or high point of a plot | 35 | |
| 8424077886 | falling action | immediately follows the climax and shows the aftereffects of the events in the climax | 36 | |
| 8424098832 | denouement | (resolution) the conclusion of the story | 37 | |
| 8424121115 | irony | a situation or use of language involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy | 38 | |
| 8424138558 | dramatic irony | an incongruity or discrepancy between what a character says and thinks and what the reader knows to be true | 39 | |
| 8424164912 | irony of situation | a situation in which there is an incongruity in between appearance and reality, or between expectation and fulfillment, or between actual situation and what would seem apropriate | 40 | |
| 8424209022 | verbal irony | a figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant | 41 | |
| 8424240673 | epistolary novel | a novel written as a series of documents | 42 | |
| 8424246317 | first person point of view | the story is told by one of its characters | 43 | |
| 8424255053 | flashback | a literary device in which an earlier event is inserted into a narrative | 44 | |
| 8424273891 | flashforward | a literary device in which a later event is inserted into a narrative | 45 | |
| 8424292274 | in medius res | in to the (middle of things) a latin phrase denoting the literary and artistic narrative technique wherein the relation of a story begins at the midpoint or at the conclusion rather than at the beginning. | 46 | |
| 8424329568 | limited omniscient point of view | the author tells the story using the third person but is limited to a complete knowledge of one character in the story and tells us only what the one character sees, thinks, feels | 47 | |
| 8424370389 | linear structure | a plot that follows a straight moving cause and effect, chronological order. | 48 | |
| 8424393213 | objective point of view | the author tells the story using the third person but is limited to reporting what the characters say or do. The author does not interpret their behavior | 49 | |
| 8424422534 | omniscient point of view | the author tells the story using the third person knowing all and free to tell us anything. | 50 | |
| 8424430634 | Narrator | The speaker or the voice of an oral or written work | 51 | |
| 8424442920 | nonlinear structure | when the plot is presented in a non causal order with events presented in a random series | 52 | |
| 8424471571 | point of view | the angle of vision in which a story is told | 53 | |
| 8424486229 | stream of conscousness | narrative which presents the private thoughts of a character without commentary or interpretation by the author | 54 | |
| 8424515215 | unreliable narrator | narrator whose credibility had been seriously compromised. Usually first person | 55 |
