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| 5054361418 | plot | the sequence of incidents or events through which an author constructs a story | 0 | |
| 5054367820 | confllict | a clash of actions, ideas,desires, or wills | 1 | |
| 5054369835 | protagonist | the central character | 2 | |
| 5054371426 | antagonist | any force arranged against the protagonist | 3 | |
| 5054373757 | suspense | the quality in a story that makes the reader ask "what's going to happen next?" | 4 | |
| 5054379082 | plot manipulation | a turn in the plot that is unjustified by the situation or characters | 5 | |
| 5054381608 | deus ex machina | a plot that relies too heavily on chance or coincidence to provide a resolution to a story | 6 | |
| 5054386292 | freytag's pyramid | a diagram that charts the structure of a dramatic work | 7 | |
| 5054390738 | characterization | the method by which the author develops a character | 8 | |
| 5054394472 | direct characterization | the author tells the reader directly about a character | 9 | |
| 5054396293 | indirect characterization | the author shows the characters through their actions | 10 | |
| 5054399135 | flat character | a character that only has one or traits | 11 | |
| 5054402262 | round character | a character that is round and many-sided | 12 | |
| 5054404483 | stock character | a stereotyped figure who recur in fiction so often that we recognize them at once | 13 | |
| 5054408684 | static character | a character that does not change throughout the story | 14 | |
| 5054411256 | dynamic character | a character that undergoes some distinct change of character, personality, or outlook | 15 | |
| 5054416204 | epiphany | a moment of spiritual insight into life or into the character's own circumstances | 16 | |
| 5054418957 | theme | the controlling idea or its central insight | 17 | |
| 5054421752 | point of view | who tells the story | 18 | |
| 5054424237 | omniscient point of view | a story told in the third person by a narrator whose knowledge and prerogatives are unlimited | 19 | |
| 5054429193 | third person limited point of view | the story is told in the third person, but told from the point of view of one person in the story | 20 | |
| 5054434872 | first person point of view | the author disappears into one of the characters | 21 | |
| 5054436511 | objective point of view | the narrator disappears into a kind of roving sound camera. this camera can go anywhere but can record only what is seen or heard. it cannot comment, interpret, or enter a character's mind | 22 | |
| 5054448645 | symbol | something that means more than what it suggests on the surface | 23 | |
| 5054451384 | anaphora | repetition of an opening word or phrase in a series of lines | 24 | |
| 5054453815 | apostrophe | a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply | 25 | |
| 5054459248 | catharsis | some sort of emotional release experienced by the audience at the end of a successful tragedy | 26 | |
| 5054464416 | foil character | a minor character whose situation or actions parallel those of a major character, and thus contrasts, sets off or illuminates the major character; most often the contrast is complementary to the major character | 27 | |
| 5054474554 | didactic writing | poetry, fiction, or drama having as a primary purpose to teach or preach | 28 | |
| 5054478282 | farce | a type of drama related to comedy but emphasizing improbable situations, violent conflicts physical action, and coarse wit over characterization or plot | 29 | |
| 5054487039 | literary fiction | fiction written with serious artistic intentions, providing an imagined experienced yielding authentic insights into some significant aspect of life | 30 | |
| 5054493384 | metaphor | a figure of speech without like or as | 31 | |
| 5054494952 | allegory | a story that has a second meaning beneath the surface, endowing a cluster of characters, objects, or events with added significance | 32 | |
| 5054500288 | fantasy | a story that transcends the bounds of known reality | 33 | |
| 5054504446 | magical realism | a story that incorporates fantastic or mythical elements into otherwise realistic fiction | 34 | |
| 5054508674 | verbal irony | a figure of speech in which the speaker says the opposite of what he or she intends to say | 35 | |
| 5054512818 | dramatic irony | the contrast is between what a character says or thinks and what the reader knows to be true | 36 | |
| 5054518574 | situational irony | the discrepancy is between appearance and reality, or between expectation and fulfillment, or between what is and what would seem appropriate | 37 | |
| 5054525775 | alliteration | the repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words | 38 | |
| 5054531325 | allusion | a reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history | 39 | |
| 5054534840 | metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant | 40 | |
| 5054540964 | onomatopoeia | the use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning in their sound | 41 | |
| 5054545651 | oxymoron | a compact verbal paradox in which two successive words seemingly contradict one another | 42 | |
| 5054549597 | paradox | a statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements but ultimately may indeed contain truth | 43 | |
| 5054558476 | personification | a figure in which human attributes are given to an animal, an object, or a concept | 44 | |
| 5054562634 | realism | literature that shows or describes people and things as they are in real life | 45 | |
| 5054565750 | sarcasm | bitter or cutting speech | 46 | |
| 5054567064 | satire | a kind of literature that ridicules human folly or vice with the purpose of bringing about reform | 47 | |
| 5054572298 | setting | the context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs | 48 | |
| 5054576700 | stream of consciousness | narrative that presents the private thought of a character without commentary or interpretation by the author | 49 | |
| 5054580656 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole | 50 | |
| 5054583113 | tone | the writer's or speaker's attitude | 51 | |
| 5054585641 | understatement | a figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means | 52 | |
| 5054588081 | hyperbole | exaggerated or overstated speech not to be taken literally | 53 | |
| 5054593094 | bombast | high-sounding language with little meaning, used to impress people | 54 | |
| 5054595945 | anachronism | a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists | 55 | |
| 5054599895 | bildungsroman | a kind of novel that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of its main character from his or her youth to adulthood | 56 | |
| 5054606768 | unreliable narrator | a narrator who cannot be trusted | 57 | |
| 5054608630 | in medias res | a story that starts in the middle of the action | 58 | |
| 5054610146 | parody | an imitation of a particular writer, artist or genre, exaggerating it deliberately to produce a comic effect | 59 | |
| 5054616252 | simile | figure of speech that uses like or as | 60 | |
| 5054617625 | antithesis | a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect | 61 | |
| 5054625961 | juxtaposition | a literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters, and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose for developing comparisons and contrasts | 62 | |
| 5054636093 | style | the way a writer writes and it is the technique which an individual author uses in his writing | 63 |
