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| 10694215350 | Bildungsroman | a special kind of novel that focuses on paychological and moral growth of its main character from his or her youth to adulthood. | 0 | |
| 10694249949 | Comedy | a type of drama, opposed to tragedy, having usually a happy ending, and emphasizing human limitation rather than human greatness. | 1 | |
| 10694265175 | Comedy of manners | comedy that ridicules the manners (way of life, social customs, etc) of a certain segment of society. *1 of 5 types of comedy* | 2 | |
| 10694270629 | Satire | a kind of literature that ridicules human folly or vice with the purpose of bringing about reform or of keeping others from falling into similar folly or vice. *1 of 5 types of comedy* | 3 | |
| 10694297404 | Scornful Comedy | A type of comedy who's ever main purpose is to expose and ridicule human folly, vanity, of hypocrisy *1 of 5 types of comedy* | 4 | |
| 10694309687 | Romantic Comedy | A type of comedy whose likable and sensible main characters are placed in difficulties from which they are rescued at the end of the play. *1 of 5 types of comedy* | 5 | |
| 10694322358 | Farce | A type of comedy that relies of exxaggeration, horseplay, and unrealistic or improbable situations to provoke laughter *1 of 5 types of comedy* | 6 | |
| 10694338444 | Fable | short narrative making an edifying or cautionary point, often employing animal characters that act like human beings | 7 | |
| 10694355034 | Fantasy | A kind of fiction that pictures creatures or events beyond the boundaries of known reality. | 8 | |
| 10694365580 | Historical Fiction | story with fictional characters and events in a historical setting. | 9 | |
| 10694373030 | Myth | any story that attempts to explain how the world was created or why the world is the way it is. Myths are stories that are passed on from generation to generation and normally involve religion. Most myths were first spread by oral tradition and the best were written down in some literary form. Many ancient literary works are, in fact, myths as myths appear in every ancient culture of the planet. | 10 | |
| 10694420685 | Novel | a book of long fictional, narrative in literary prose | 11 | |
| 10694424135 | Novella | (also called a short novel), a written, fictional, prose narrative shorter than a novel. | 12 | |
| 10694431619 | Parable | a simply story illustrating a moral or religious lesson. | 13 | |
| 10694437662 | Tragedy | drama in which a noble protagonist - a person of unusual moral or intellectual stature or outstanding abilities - falls to ruin during a struggle caused by a tragic flaw (or hanartia) in his character or an error in his rulings or judgements. | 14 | |
| 10694490123 | Epistolary | a novel written as a series of documents | 15 | |
| 10694497305 | First Person POV | story is told by one of its characters using the firs time person ( I, me, us ) | 16 | |
| 10694508802 | Flashback | a literary device in which an earlier event is inserted into a narrative. | 17 | |
| 10694517088 | Flashforward | a literary device in which a later event is inserted into a narrative. | 18 | |
| 10694522577 | In Meduas Res | (into the middle of things) is a Latin phrase denoting the literary and artistic narrative technique where in the relation of a story begins either at the mid-point or at the conclusion, rather than at the beginning, establishing setting, character, and conflict via flashback and expository conversations. | 19 | |
| 10694549138 | Limited POV | the author tells the story, using the third person, but is limited to a complete knowledge of on each character in the story and tells us only what that one character thinks, feels, or hears. | 20 | |
| 10694566283 | Linear Structure | A plot that follows a straight-moving, cause and effect, chronological order. | 21 | |
| 10694571421 | Objective POV | the author tells the story, using the third person, but isn't limited to reporting what the characters say or do; the author does not interpret their behaviors or tell us their private thoughts or feelings. | 22 | |
| 10694589981 | Omniscient POV | the author tells the story, using the third person, knowing all and free to tell us anything, including what the characters are thinking or feeling and why they act as they do. | 23 | |
| 10694607220 | Narrator | the speaker of "voice" of ann oral or written work. Although it can be, the narrator is not usually the same person as the author. The narrator isn't one of three type songs of characters in a given work. 1) participant (protagonist or participant in any action that may take place in the story). 2) observer (someone which is indirectly involved in the action of a story), or 3) non participant (one which isn't not at all involved in any action of the story). The narrator is the direct window into a piece of work. | 24 | |
| 10694649673 | Nonlinear Structure | when the plot is presented in a non-casual order, with events presented in a random series jumping to and from the main plot with flashbacks or flash forwards; or in any other manner that i saw either not chronological or not cause and effect. For example, in medias res. | 25 | |
| 10694738512 | Point of View | the angle of vision from which a story is told. | 26 | |
| 10694753317 | Stream of Consciousness | narrative which presents the private thoughts of a character without commentary or interpretation by the author. | 27 | |
| 10694758903 | Unreliable narrator | a narrator whose credibility has been seriously compromised. Unreliable narrators aren't usually first person narrators. | 28 | |
| 10694788964 | Antagonist | character in story or poem who opposes the main character (protagonist), sometimes is an animal, idea, or thing. | 29 | |
| 10694797400 | Character | 1) Any of the persons involved in a story or play [sense 1] 2) the distinguishing moral qualities and personal trait such of a character [sense 2]. | 30 | |
| 10694818603 | Characterization | the process of conveying information about characters. | 31 | |
| 10694825714 | Deuteragonist | the second most important character behind the protagonist, often a foil or eventual antagonist. | 32 | |
| 10694840502 | Direct presentation of character | a method of characterization in which the author, by exposition or analysis, tells us directly what a character is like, or has someone else's in the story do so. | 33 | |
| 10694850838 | Dynamic character | a character (sense 1) who during the course of a story undergoes a permanent change in some aspect of character (sense 2) or outlook. | 34 | |
| 10694867841 | Flat character | a character (sense 1) whose character (sense 2) is summed up in one or two traits. | 35 | |
| 10694877024 | Foil | a character who contrasts with another character (usually the protagonist) in order to highlight various features of that other character's personality, throwing these characteristics into sharper focus. | 36 | |
| 10694897523 | Hero | a man endowed with great courage and strength, celebrate during for bold exploits, favored by the gods. | 37 | |
| 10694907653 | Indirect Presentation of Character | method of characterization in which the author shows us a character in action, compelling us to infer what the character is like from what is said or done by them. | 38 | |
| 10694944638 | Protagonist | the main character of a novel, play, or film. | 39 | |
| 10694955506 | Round Character | a character (sense 1) whose character (sense 2) is complex and many sided. | 40 | |
| 10694963165 | Static Character | a character who is the same sort of person from beginning to end. | 41 | |
| 10694969074 | Stock Character | a stereotyped character. | 42 | |
| 10694972708 | Tragic Flaw | a flaw in the character of the protagonist that brings the protagonist to ruin or sorrow. | 43 | |
| 10694988402 | Anticlimax | sudden descent from the impressive or significant to then lidcrous or inconsequential. | 44 | |
| 10694998043 | Catastrophe | concluding action of a classical tragedy containing the resolution of the plot. | 45 | |
| 10695021918 | Comic Relief | a humorous incident introduced into a serious literary work in order to relieve dramatic tension or heighten emotional impact. | 46 | |
| 10695030584 | Dilemma | a situation in which a character must choose between two courses of action, both undesirable | 47 | |
| 10695049332 | Deus ex Machina | (god from the machine) The resolution of a plot by use of a highly improbable chance or coincidence (so named from the practice of something Greek dramatists of having a god descent from heaven at the last possible minute- in the theater by means of a stage machine- to rescue the protagonist from an impossible situation). | 48 | |
| 10695075376 | Indeterminate Ending | an ending in which the central problem or conflict is left unresolved. | 49 | |
| 10695081870 | Inversion | A reversal in order, nature, or effect | 50 | |
| 10695088905 | Motivation | an emotion, desire, phsiological need, or similar impulse that acts as an incitement to action. | 51 | |
| 10695101165 | Mystery | an unusual set of circumstances for which the reader craves an explanation; use deodorant to create suspense. | 52 | |
| 10695113610 | Plot | the sequence of incidents or events of which a story is composed. | 53 | |
| 10695119812 | Plot Manipulation | a situation in which an author gives the plot a twist or turn unjustified by preceding action or by the characters involved | 54 | |
| 10695134694 | Plot Device | an object, character, or event whose only reason for existing i should to advance the story. Often breaks suspension of disbelief. | 55 | |
| 10695149477 | Red Herring | a literary tactic of diverting attention away from an item or person of significance. | 56 | |
| 10695155714 | Suspense | that quality in a story that makes the reader eager to discover what happen and next and how it will end. | 57 | |
| 10695170330 | Suspense in Disbelief | an unspoken agreement between writer and reader. "I agree to believe your make-believe if it entertains me". | 58 | |
| 10695181373 | Subplot | a plot subordinate to the main plot of a literary work. | 59 | |
| 10695188714 | Aside | a brief speech in which a character turns from the person being addressed to speak directly to the audience; a dramatic device for letting the audience know what a character is reallt rhibking or feeling a sense opposed to what they pretend to think or feel. | 60 | |
| 10695211146 | Dialogue | 1) Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative. 2) A literary work written in the form of a conversation. | 61 | |
| 10695218924 | Dialect | a regional variety of a languages distinguished by pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary. | 62 | |
| 10695231203 | Monologue | 1) A dramatic soliloquy. 2) A literary composition in such form. | 63 | |
| 10695240681 | Prologue | an introduction or a preface, esp. a poem recited to introduce a play. | 64 | |
| 10695252860 | Scene | A subdivision of an act in a dramatic presentation in which the setting is fixed and the time continuous. | 65 | |
| 10695273061 | Soliloquy | a device often used in drama where by a character relates his or her thought she and feelings to him/himself and to the audience without addressing any of the other characters. | 66 |
