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| 5110995546 | Commercial Fiction | written and published primarily to make money. Often easy to read and appears on best seller lists, helps people escape their lives | 0 | |
| 5111014677 | Literary Fiction | enables reader to understand life's difficulties and to emphasize with others. Provides a complex lasting aesthetic and intellectual pleasure | 1 | |
| 5127940373 | Plot | The sequence of incidents or events through which an author constructs a story | 2 | |
| 5127952274 | Structure | arrangement of the plot's elements | 3 | |
| 5127962677 | Conflict | A clash of actions, ideas, desires, or wills | 4 | |
| 5127984310 | Protagonist | The central character in a conflict | 5 | |
| 5128004641 | Antagonist | Any force pitted up against the protagonist | 6 | |
| 5128020181 | Suspense | Quality in the story that makes the reader ask "What will happen next" Increases interest | 7 | |
| 5128049528 | Mystery | An unusual set of circumstances for which the reader craves explanation | 8 | |
| 5128070883 | Dilemma | A position in which one must choose between two courses of action which are both undesirable | 9 | |
| 5128090244 | Intermediate Ending | An ending in which no definite conclusion is reached | 10 | |
| 5128109706 | Artistic Ending | The relevance of all plot points of a story | 11 | |
| 5128134143 | Plot Manipulation | The inclusion of an unjustified plot turn that replies upon chance | 12 | |
| 5128165291 | Duse ex Machina | The resolution of a story led by chance | 13 | |
| 5128189699 | Coincidence | The chance occurrence of two events that have a peculiar correspondence | 14 | |
| 5128198526 | Chance | Occurrence of an event that has no apparent cause | 15 | |
| 5128239037 | Characterization | Description of a character | 16 | |
| 5128297557 | Direct Presentation | Characterization through exposition or analysis | 17 | |
| 5128318784 | Indirect Presentation | Characterization through a character's actions | 18 | |
| 5128333222 | Dramatization | Human aspects of characters are exaggerated | 19 | |
| 5128358973 | Flat Characters | A character having only one or two predominant characteristics | 20 | |
| 5128388384 | Round Characters | Complex and many sided characters | 21 | |
| 5128420369 | Stock Character | Stereotyped characters who are used so often in fiction that they are recognized at once | 22 | |
| 5128438187 | Static Character | A character that remains the same throughout the story | 23 | |
| 5128456027 | Dynamic/ Developing Character | A character that goes through a distinct personality change | 24 | |
| 5128493474 | Epiphany | A moment of a spiritual insight into life or a character's circumstances. Moment of change in a dynamic character | 25 | |
| 5128554133 | Theme | The controlling idea or general idea of a work of fiction | 26 | |
| 5128607724 | Omnipresent Point of View | Told in the third person by a narrator whose knowledge is unlimited | 27 | |
| 5128617789 | Third person limited point of view | Told in the third person but about one particular character | 28 | |
| 5128637592 | First person point of view | one of the characters tells story from first person | 29 | |
| 5128651238 | Objective/ Dramatic point of view | Narrator disappears into a roving sound camera , can go anywhere but not seen or heard | 30 | |
| 5128669206 | Second person point of view | narrator tells the story to another character using the word 'you. | 31 | |
| 5128688769 | Symbol | Something that means more than it suggests | 32 | |
| 5128712369 | Allegory | A story that has a second meaning | 33 | |
| 5128733773 | Fantasy | A story that requires the suspension of reality | 34 | |
| 5128748355 | Irony | A humor technique | 35 | |
| 5128754688 | Verbal irony | A figure of speech in which the speaker says one thing but means the opposite | 36 | |
| 5128765277 | Dramatic irony | Contrast with what the character says or does and what the reader knows to be true | 37 | |
| 5128781851 | Sentimentality | Stories that try to elicit easy or unearned emotional resonances | 38 |
