8426772598 | commercial fiction | intended solely to entertain | 0 | |
8426772599 | literary fiction | explores characters and themes in more depth and appeals to smaller more specific audience | 1 | |
8426772600 | plot structure | The usual order of events in a particular story | 2 | |
8426772601 | character protagonist | is the central character of a drama, novel, short story, or narrative poem | 3 | |
8426772602 | Antagonist | A character or force in conflict with the main character | 4 | |
8426772603 | foil character | a character's whose main purpose is to highlight the strengths of another character | 5 | |
8426772604 | doppelganger | a ghostly double of a living person | 6 | |
8426772605 | Nemesis (noun) | an opponent or enemy that is difficult to defeat | 7 | |
8426772606 | confidante character | special kind of character who the main character confides in | 8 | |
8426772607 | Narrator | The person who tells the story | 9 | |
8426772608 | reliable narrator | trustworthy | 10 | |
8426772609 | naive narrator | narrator, such as a child, who does not understand the full implications of the narrative | 11 | |
8426772610 | unreliable narrator | an untrustworthy or naive commentator on events and characters in a story | 12 | |
8426772611 | static vs. dynamic | extent to which people change over time | 13 | |
8426772612 | flat character | A character who is not very well developed; has few identifiable characteristics | 14 | |
8426772613 | round character | this character is fully developed - the writer reveals good and bad traits as well as background | 15 | |
8426772614 | Epiphany | A moment of great insight; revelation | 16 | |
8426772615 | allegory (n) | symbolic representation | 17 | |
8426772616 | Symbolism | A device in literature where an object represents an idea. | 18 | |
8426772617 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 19 | |
8426772618 | Consonance | Repetition of consonant sounds | 20 | |
8426772619 | Rhyme | Repetition of sounds at the end of words | 21 | |
8426772620 | end rhyme | A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line | 22 | |
8426772621 | approximate rhyme | rhyme in which the final sounds of words are similar but not identical | 23 | |
8426772622 | internal rhyme | a rhyme between words in the same line | 24 | |
8426772623 | verbal irony | occurs when what is said contradicts what is meant or thought | 25 | |
8426772624 | situational irony | what actually happens is the opposite of what is expected or appropriate | 26 | |
8426772625 | dramatic irony | when the audience knows something the characters do not | 27 |
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