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| 3681705158 | Protagonist | The central character in a conflict, whether sympathetic or unsympathetic as a person. +central character. | 0 | |
| 3681706542 | Antagonist | Any force arranged against the protagonist's own character traits. | 1 | |
| 3681711330 | Dilemma | A position in which he or she must choose between two courses of action, both undesirable. | 2 | |
| 3681712988 | Artistic Unity | There must be nothing in the story that is irrelevant, that does not contribute to the meaning; there should be nothing there for its own sake or its own excitement. | 3 | |
| 3681713751 | Deus ex machine | (Latin for "god from a machine") Having a god descend from heaven at the last minute to rescue the protagonist from some impossible situation. | 4 | |
| 3681717115 | Direct Presentation | Authors present their characters straight out, by exposition or analysis, what the characters are like, or they have another character in the story describe them. | 5 | |
| 3681729827 | Indirect Presentation | Author shows us the characters through their actions; we determine what they are like by what they say or what they do. | 6 | |
| 3681731176 | Denotation | 7 | ||
| 3681733071 | Connotation | 8 | ||
| 3681733072 | Flat | Usually have one or two predominant traits; they can be summed up in a sentence or two. | 9 | |
| 3681733943 | Round | Are complex and many-sided; they have the 3-D quality of a real person. | 10 | |
| 3681734941 | Stock | Stereotyped figures who have recurred so often in fiction that we recognize them at once. | 11 | |
| 3681736000 | Static | Remains the same person from the beginning of story to the end. | 12 | |
| 3681737440 | Dynamic | Undergoes some distinct change of character, personality, or outlook. The change may be a large or a small one; it may be positive or negative; but it is something significant and basic, not some minor change of habit or opinion. | 13 | |
| 3682898301 | Epiphany | A moment of spiritual insight into life or into the character's own circumstances. | 14 | |
| 3682932234 | Theme | A piece of fiction is it's controlling idea or its central insight. | 15 |
