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| 8380031987 | Fiction | literature in the form of prose, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people. A story in which the elements are imaginary or invented | 0 | |
| 8380032023 | Genre | a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter. | 1 | |
| 8380036163 | Fable | a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral. | 2 | |
| 8380036164 | Parable | a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, as told by Jesus in the Gospel | 3 | |
| 8380036165 | Fairy Tale | A fairy tale is a type of short story that typically features folkloric fantasy characters and locations, such as dwarfs, dragons, elves, fairies, giants, gnomes, goblins, griffins, mermaids, talking animals, trolls, unicorns, or witches, and usually magic or enchantments. a children's story about magical and imaginary beings and lands. | 4 | |
| 8380036166 | Short Story | a story with a fully developed theme but significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel. | 5 | |
| 8380039773 | Modern Short Story | The subject matter of such stories is personal and illuminates less savory aspects of humanity through characters who seem real. | 6 | |
| 8380039774 | Moral | a lesson, especially one concerning what is right or prudent, that can be derived from a story, a piece of information, or an experience. concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior and the goodness or badness of human character. | 7 | |
| 8380039775 | Exposition | the writer's way to give background information to the audience about the setting and the characters of the story. | 8 | |
| 8380039776 | Conflict | A conflict in literature is defined as any struggle between opposing forces. Usually, the main character struggles against some other force. | 9 | |
| 8380039777 | Protagonist | A protagonist is the main character in any story, such as a literary work or drama. | 10 | |
| 8380043871 | Antagonist | The antagonist is the opposing force that brings conflict and is instrumental in the development of the protagonist, or main character. | 11 | |
| 8380043872 | Hero | A hero (masculine) or heroine (feminine) is a person or main character of a literary work who, in the face of danger, combats adversity through feats of ingenuity, bravery or strength, often sacrificing their own personal concerns for a greater good. | 12 | |
| 8380048747 | Antihero | Antiheroes are fascinating characters who have appeared in literature, in film, and on stage for centuries. An antihero is a protagonist or other notable figure who is conspicuously lacking in heroic qualities. | 13 | |
| 8380048748 | Story Arc |  | 14 | |
| 8380048749 | Plot | Plot is a literary term used to describe the events that make up a story, or the main part of a story. These events relate to each other in a pattern or a sequence. The structure of a novel depends on the organization of events in the plot of the story. | 15 | |
| 8380048750 | Crisis | A point in a story or drama when a conflict reaches its highest tension and must be resolved. | 16 | |
| 8380048751 | Climax | the highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of something; culmination: His career reached its climax when he was elected president. A decisive moment that is of maximum intensity or is a major turning point in a plot. | 17 | |
| 8380052299 | Resolution | The resolution is the part of a story's plot line in which the problem of the story is resolved or worked out. This occurs after the falling action and is typically where the story ends. | 18 | |
| 8380057254 | Dénouement | Denouement is a literary device that can be defined as the resolution of the issue of a complicated plot in fiction. The majority of examples of denouement show the resolution in the final part or chapter, often in an epilogue. Denouement is usually driven by the climax. | 19 | |
| 8380057255 | In medias res | In medias res is Latin for "into the middle of things." It usually describes a narrative that begins, not at the beginning of a story, but somewhere in the middle — usually at some crucial point in the action. | 20 | |
| 8380057256 | Retrospect | The definition of a retrospect is a review, looking back on something that has happened in the past. An example of a retrospect is when you look back on a decision you made and, knowing the outcome, realize you should have made a different choice. | 21 | |
| 8380060925 | Epiphany | Epiphany is the point in a work of literature where a character has a sudden insight or realization that changes his or her understanding. | 22 | |
| 8380060926 | Bildungsroman | Bildungsroman is a special kind of novel that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of its main character from his or her youth to adulthood. | 23 | |
| 8380063490 | Narrator | person who tells a story; in literature, the voice that an author takes on to tell a story. This voice can have a personality quite different from the author's. For example, in his story "The Tell-Tale Heart," Edgar Allan Poe makes his narrator a raving lunatic. | 24 | |
| 8380063491 | Omniscient Narrator | The narrator knows the thoughts, actions, and feelings of every character in the story. Third person. | 25 | |
| 8380182751 | Non-participant Narrator | The narrator is considered non-participant if he/she is an implied character or an omniscient or semi-omniscient being or voice that merely relates the story to the audience without being involved in the actual events | 26 | |
| 8380182752 | Participant Narrator | The narrator is considered participant if he/she is a character within the story, | 27 | |
| 8380187047 | Limited Omniscience | the narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character. All characters are described using pronouns, such as 'they', 'he', and 'she'. But, one character is closely followed throughout the story, and it is typically a main character. | 28 | |
| 8380187048 | Selective Omniscience | The narrator sees into minds of some but not all. usually the main character or a minor character. | 29 | |
| 8380187049 | Impartial Omniscience | The narrator presents the thoughts and actions of the characters but does not judge or comment on them. | 30 | |
| 8380191457 | Total Omniscience | The narrator knows the feelings and thoughts of every character in the story. He or she is all-knowing. | 31 | |
| 8380194490 | Unreliable Narrator | An unreliable narrator is a narrator, whether in literature, film, or theatre, whose credibility has been seriously compromised. Usually biased, young, naive, insane, or a liar. Huckleberry Finn. | 32 | |
| 8380194491 | Point of View | The term point of view, or POV for shorthand, refers to who is telling a story, or who is narrating it. The narration of a story or novel can be told in three main ways: first person, second person, and third person. | 33 | |
| 8380194492 | First Person | First person narrative is a point of view (who is telling a story) where the story is narrated by one character at a time. This character may be speaking about him or herself or sharing events that he or she is experiencing. | 34 | |
| 8380199826 | Third Person | In third-person point of view, the narrator tells us about what's happening in the story. In third-person limited, the narrator shows us the thoughts and feelings of one character. In third-person omniscient, the narrator is all-knowing and shows us the inner world of every character that appears. | 35 | |
| 8380199827 | Reader-Response Criticism | Reader-response criticism is a school of literary theory that focuses on the reader (or "audience") and their experience of a literary work, in contrast to other schools and theories that focus attention primarily on the author or the content and form of the work. | 36 | |
| 8380207184 | Biographical Criticism | Biographical criticism is a form of Literary criticism which analyzes a writer's biography to show the relationship between the author's life and their works of literature. | 37 | |
| 8380207185 | Historical Criticism | Historical criticism, also known as the historical-critical method or higher criticism, is a branch of literary criticism that investigates the origins of ancient text in order to understand "the world behind the text". | 38 | |
| 8380210469 | Psychological Criticism | Psychoanalytic criticism argues that literary texts, like dreams, express the secret unconscious desires and anxieties of the author, that a literary work is a manifestation of the author's own neuroses | 39 | |
| 8380210470 | Dialogue | Dialogue is a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people, and a literary and theatrical form that depicts such an exchange. | 40 | |
| 8380210471 | Character | A person in a novel, play, or movie. | 41 | |
| 8380210472 | Flat Characters | Flat characters are two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of a work. Example: Prince Charming | 42 | |
| 8380217039 | Round Characters | Round characters are complex and undergo development, sometimes sufficiently to surprise the reader. | 43 | |
| 8380217040 | Static Characters | a literary or dramatic character who undergoes little or no inner change; a character who does not grow or develop. | 44 | |
| 8380217041 | Dynamic Characters | a literary or dramatic character who undergoes an important inner change, as a change in personality or attitude: Ebeneezer Scrooge is a dynamic character. | 45 | |
| 8380220822 | Setting | The setting of a piece of literature is the time and place in which the story takes place. The definition of setting can also include social statuses, weather, historical period, and details about immediate surroundings. Settings can be real or fictional, or a combination of both real and fictional elements. | 46 | |
| 8380220823 | Regional Writing/Writer | regional literature is fiction and poetry that focuses on the characters, dialect, customs, topography, and other features particular to a specific region. | 47 | |
| 8380220824 | Style | Style in literature is the literary element that describes the ways that the author uses words — the author's word choice, sentence structure, figurative language, and sentence arrangement all work together to establish mood, images, and meaning in the text. | 48 | |
| 8380223648 | Tone | Tone, in written composition, is an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience. Tone is generally conveyed through the choice of words, or the viewpoint of a writer on a particular subject. ... The tone can be formal, informal, serious, comic, sarcastic, sad, or cheerful, or it may be any other existing attitude. | 49 | |
| 8380223649 | Minimalists | Style or technique (as in music, literature, or design) that is characterized by extreme spareness and simplicity. Minimalists generally write as little as possible. | 50 | |
| 8380223650 | Diction | Diction is word choice, or the style of speaking that a writer, speaker, or character uses. | 51 | |
| 8380223651 | Irony | a situation in which there is an incongruity between what is expected and what occurs the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning | 52 | |
| 8380223704 | Sarcasm | Saying one thing while meaning the exact opposite. The use of irony to mock or convey contempt. | 53 | |
| 8380229603 | Verbal Irony | Verbal Irony is when words express something contrary to truth or someone says the opposite of what they really feel or mean. | 54 | |
| 8380229604 | Dramatic Irony | Dramatic irony is a form of irony that is expressed through a work's structure: an audience's awareness of the situation in which a work's characters exist differs substantially from that of the characters', and the words and actions of the characters therefore take on a different—often contradictory—meaning. Gift of the Magi. | 55 | |
| 8380232726 | Cosmic Irony | the idea that fate, destiny, or a god controls and toys with human hopes and expectations; also, the belief that the universe is so large and man is so small that the universe is indifferent to the plight of man; also called irony of fate. Appointment in Samarra | 56 | |
| 8380236307 | Ironic Point of View | Sometimes attached to an unreliable narrator, biased, young, naive, a liar, such as Huckleberry Finn. | 57 | |
| 8380236308 | Theme | In contemporary literary studies, a theme is the central topic a text treats. Themes can be divided into two categories: a work's thematic concept is what readers "think the work is about" and its thematic statement being "what the work says about the subject". | 58 | |
| 8380236309 | Allusion | An allusion is a figure of speech that refers to a well-known story, event, person, or object in order to make a comparison in the readers' minds. For instance, imagine a writer needs to explain her main character's struggle against an overwhelmingly powerful opponent. | 59 | |
| 8380236310 | Symbolic Act | Expressing or representing an idea or quality without using words. | 60 | |
| 8380236311 | Symbol | In literature, symbolism can take many forms including: A figure of speech where an object, person, or situation has another meaning other than its literal meaning. The actions of a character, word, action, or event that have a deeper meaning in the context of the whole story. | 61 | |
| 8380238431 | Allegory | Everything is a symbol. (Animal Farm) | 62 |
