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| 10939547309 | Objective Point of View | The author tells the story, using the third person, but is limited to reporting what the characters say or do; the author does not interpret their behavior or tell us their private thoughts or feelings. | 0 | |
| 10939547310 | Narrator | the speaker or the "voice" of an oral or written work. | 1 | |
| 10939552096 | Nonlinear Structure | is when the plot is presented in a non-causal 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 is either not chronological or not cause and effect. | 2 | |
| 10939554623 | Unreliable Narrator | a narrator whose credibility has been seriously compromised. | 3 | |
| 10939554624 | Anticlimax | A sudden descent from the impressive or significant to the ludicrous or inconsequential | 4 | |
| 10939557776 | Dilemma | A situation in which a character must choose between two courses of action, both undesirable | 5 | |
| 10939557777 | Deus Ex Machina | The resolution of a plot by use of a highly improbable chance or coincidence | 6 | |
| 10939569191 | Indeterminate Ending | An ending in which the central problem or conflict is left unresolved | 7 | |
| 10939572777 | Inversion | A reversal in order, nature, or effect | 8 | |
| 10939572778 | Paradox | A statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements | 9 | |
| 10939575274 | Prologue | An introduction or a preface | 10 | |
| 10939581749 | Red Herring | a literary tactic of diverting attention away from an item or person of significance | 11 | |
| 10939581750 | Suspense | That quality in a story that makes the reader eager to discover what happens next and how it will end | 12 | |
| 10939588405 | Suspension of Disbelief | An unspoken agreement between writer and reader: "I agree to believe your make-believe if it entertains me." | 13 | |
| 10939588406 | Subplot | A plot subordinate to the main plot of a literary work | 14 | |
| 10939588407 | Fable | A short narrative making an edifying or cautionary point and often employing animal characters that act like human beings | 15 | |
| 10939591788 | 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. | 16 | |
| 10939591789 | Myth | any story that attempts to explain how the world was created or why the world is the way that it is. | 17 | |
| 10939596793 | Parable | A simple story illustrating a moral or religious lesson | 18 |
