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| 5188369900 | Plot | the main events of a play, novel, film, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence | 0 | |
| 5188369901 | Structure | 1 | ||
| 5188369902 | Conflict | the struggle between two opposing people, groups of people or forces the struggle between the protagonist and the antagonist | 2 | |
| 5188369903 | Protagonist | The main character of a literary work--Hamlet and Othello in the plays named after them, Gregor Samsa in Kafka's Metamorphosis, Paul in Lawrence's "Rocking-Horse Winner." | 3 | |
| 5188369904 | Antagonist | A character or force against which another character struggles. Creon is Antigone's antagonist in Sophocles' play Antigone; Teiresias is the antagonist of Oedipus in Sophocles' Oedipus the King. | 4 | |
| 5188369905 | Suspense | suspense a feeling of uncertainty and curiosity about what will happen next in a story | 5 | |
| 5188369906 | Mystery | something that is difficult or impossible to understand or explain a novel, play, or film dealing with a puzzling crime, especially a murder. | 6 | |
| 5188369907 | Dilemma | a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more undesirable outcomes | 7 | |
| 5188369908 | Surprise | an unexpected or astonishing event, fact, etc. | 8 | |
| 5188369909 | Indeterminate ending | the conflict is left unresolved or ambiguous at the end of the plot. | 9 | |
| 5188369910 | Artistic unity | That condition of a successful literary work whereby all its elements work together for the achievement of its central purpose. | 10 | |
| 5188369911 | Plot manipulation | A situation in which an author gives the plot a twist or turn unjustified by preceding action or by the characters involved. | 11 | |
| 5188369912 | Deus ex machina | It refers to the incidence where an implausible concept or character is brought into the story in order to make the conflict in the story resolve and to bring about a pleasing solution | 12 | |
| 5188369913 | Coincidence | a situation in which events happen at the same time in a way that is not planned or expected | 13 | |
| 5188369914 | Rising action | in a plot is a series of relevant incidents that create suspense, interest and tension in a narrative. In literary works, a rising action includes all decisions, characters' flaws and background circumstances that together create turns and twists leading to a climax. | 14 | |
| 5188369915 | Climax | a structural part of a plot and is at times referred to as a crisis. It is a decisive moment or a turning point in a storyline at which the rising action turns around into a falling action. | 15 | |
| 5188369916 | Falling action | the parts of a story after the climax and before the very end | 16 | |
| 5188369917 | Dramatization | To dramatize something is to put it in dramatic form (like a TV show or movie) or make it seem more dramatic, using exaggeration | 17 | |
| 5188369918 | Flat Character | two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of a work | 18 | |
| 5188369919 | Round Character | A round character is extremely realistic, behaving and speaking in a "real life" manner. The character is complex and increases in complexity throughout the story. | 19 | |
| 5188369920 | Stock Character | A stock character is a stereotypical person whom audiences readily recognize from frequent recurrences in a particular literary tradition. | 20 | |
| 5188369921 | Static Character | a literary or dramatic character who undergoes little or no inner change; a character who does not grow or develop. | 21 | |
| 5188369922 | Omniscient Narrator | Third person omniscient is a point of view where the narrator knows all the thoughts, actions, and feelings of all characters | 22 | |
| 5188369923 | Third person limited Narrator | the narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character. | 23 | |
| 5188369924 | Stream of consciousness Narrator | interior monologue; which is a narrative mode or device that depicts the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind. | 24 | |
| 5188369925 | First person Narrator | is a point of view (who is telling a story) where the story is narrated by one character at a time. | 25 | |
| 5188369926 | Objective/Dramatic Narrator | the author must describe gestures and actions that indirectly show how a character feels, thinks and deals with internal conflict. Authors will use this p.o.v. to achieve a high degree of realism, since it mimics how we interact in real-life. It's also useful to shield the reader from the true thoughts and feelings of the characters, as in Shirley Jackson's suspenseful "The Lottery". | 26 | |
| 5188369927 | Symbol | the practice or art of using an object or a word to represent an abstract idea. | 27 | |
| 5188369928 | Allegory | A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning. Allegory often takes the form of a story in which the characters represent moral qualities. | 28 |
