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| 4760264529 | Participant | A dramatized character who says, "I". | 0 | |
| 4760264530 | Observer | Standing a little to one side, watching a story unfold that mainly involves someone else. | 1 | |
| 4760266654 | Nonparticipant | Does not appear in the story as a character. | 2 | |
| 4760269569 | Omniscent | The narrator sees into the minds of all or some of the characters, moving from one to another. | 3 | |
| 4760285029 | Editorial Omniscience | When the narrator intergects their opinion on the character's thoughts. | 4 | |
| 4760286487 | Impartial Omniscience | Presents the thoughts and actions of the characters, but does not judge them or comment on them. | 5 | |
| 4760288331 | Limited/Selective Omniscience | When a nonparticipating narrator sees events through the eyes of a single character, whether a major character or a minor one | 6 | |
| 4760297969 | Objective Point of View | The narrator does not enter the mind of any character but describes events from the outside. | 7 | |
| 4760299493 | Innocent/Naive Narrator | A character who fails to understand all the implications of the story. | 8 | |
| 4760302415 | Unreliable Narrator | The point of view is that of a person who, we perceive is deceptive, self-deceptive, deluded or deranged. | 9 | |
| 4760303939 | Stream of Conciousness | The procession of thoughts passing through the mind. | 10 | |
| 4760305148 | Total Omniscience | A knowledge of the minds of all the characters, has its disadvantages. | 11 | |
| 4767017230 | Setting | Time and place of a story; locale | 12 | |
| 4767018500 | Style | the individual traits or characteristics of a piece of writing :to a writer's particular ways of managing words that we come to recognize as habitual or customary | 13 | |
| 4773149552 | diction | word choice | 14 | |
| 4773151458 | minimalist | give nothing but facts drawn from ordinary life, sometimes in a picayune detail. | 15 | |
| 4773158910 | verbal irony/sarcasm | the speaker's meaning is far from the usual meaning of the words | 16 | |
| 4773161332 | Ironic point of view | a sharp distinction between the narrator is telling us something that we are clearly expected to doubt or to interpret very differently. | 17 | |
| 4773219041 | Cosmic irony | 18 | ||
| 4783186853 | Theme | The general idea or insight the entire story reveals. | 19 | |
| 4787542789 | Symbol | a thing that suggests more than the literal meaning | 20 | |
| 4787545149 | Allegory | a story in which persons places and things form a system of clearly labeled equivalents | 21 | |
| 4787551816 | Symbolic act | a gesture with larger significance than usual | 22 | |
| 4793379467 | Novel | a book length story in prose whose author tries to create the sense that while we read we experience actual life | 23 | |
| 4793380715 | Epistolary Novel | contained letters by only one character often they contained letters by several of the characters in the book | 24 | |
| 4793384748 | Romance | a genre of fiction dealing with love in an idealized way | 25 | |
| 4793447854 | Nonfiction Novel | the author presents actual people and events in story form | 26 | |
| 4793448656 | Historical Novel | a detailed reconstruction of life in another time perhaps in another place | 27 | |
| 4793451386 | Apprenticeship Novel | a youth struggles toward maturity, seeking, perhaps, some inconsistent world view or philosophy of life. | 28 | |
| 4793452679 | Picaresque Novel | a likable scoundrel wanders through adventures living by his wits duping the straight citizenry | 29 | |
| 4793454100 | Short Novel | refers to a narrative midway in length between a short story and a novel | 30 | |
| 4793455380 | Novelette | refers to a short novel written for a popular magazine | 31 | |
| 4805564305 | Brusque | abrupt or offhand in speech or manner. | 32 | |
| 4805564345 | Dispassionate | not influenced by strong emotion, and so able to be rational and impartial. | 33 | |
| 4805565676 | Effervescent | vivacious and enthusiastic | 34 | |
| 4805566589 | Indefatigable | (of a person or their efforts) persisting tirelessly | 35 | |
| 4805566590 | Misanthrope | a person who dislikes humankind and avoids human society. | 36 | |
| 4805568122 | Morose | sullen and ill-tempered | 37 | |
| 4805568123 | Nonchalance | (of a person or manner) feeling or appearing casually calm and relaxed; not displaying anxiety, interest, or enthusiasm. | 38 | |
| 4805569093 | Progeny | a descendant or the descendants of a person, animal, or plant; offspring. | 39 | |
| 4805569094 | Stoic | a person who can endure pain or hardship without showing their feelings or complaining. | 40 | |
| 4805571205 | Voracious | wanting or devouring great quantities of food; | 41 |
