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| 4791463531 | Protagonist | the leading character or one of the major characters in a work of fiction. | 0 | |
| 4791473602 | Antagonist | Opponent who struggles against or blocks the hero, or protagonist, in a story. | 1 | |
| 4791504966 | Allusion | Reference to another literary work or aspect of culture | 2 | |
| 4791532247 | Direct Characterization | the process by which the personality of a character is revealed by the use of descriptive adjectives, phrases, or epithets. | 3 | |
| 4791538527 | Indirect Characterization | the process by which the personality of a character is revealed through the character's speech, actions, appearance, etc. | 4 | |
| 4791542276 | Static Character | A character that undergoes little to no inner change | 5 | |
| 4791547076 | Dynamic Character | is one who changes in some important way as a result of the story's action | 6 | |
| 4791558384 | Flat Character | has only one or two personality traits. They can be summed up by one phrase | 7 | |
| 4791569840 | Round Character | has more dimensions to their personalities-they are complex, just as real people are | 8 | |
| 4791572703 | Internal Conflict | A conflict involving opposing forces within a person's mind | 9 | |
| 4791580975 | External Conflict | Conflicts existing between two people, between a person and nature or a machine, or between a person and a whole society | 10 | |
| 4791590810 | Symbol | a person, place, thing or event that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something more that itself. | 11 | |
| 4791612335 | Theme | the subject of a piece of writing | 12 | |
| 4791616099 | Plot | the succession of events or what happens in a piece of literature | 13 | |
| 4791619857 | Exposition | a comprehensive description of a story's setting, plot or characters; the story's introduction | 14 | |
| 4791628191 | Rising Action | the series of events that begin immediately after the exposition (introduction) of the story and builds up to the climax | 15 | |
| 4791636797 | Dramatic Climax | A narrative work's highest point of tension and drama | 16 | |
| 4791644643 | Falling Action | the parts of a story after the climax and before the conclusion | 17 | |
| 4791648507 | Resolution | The story's conflict is resolved | 18 | |
| 4791652110 | Catastrophe | The story's conflict ends in defeat, humiliation or the protagonist failing or losing in some manner | 19 | |
| 4791662297 | Dramatic Irony | irony that is inherent in dramas or plays and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the play's characters | 20 | |
| 4791664054 | Situational Irony | incongruity between expectations of something to happen, and what actually happens instead. | 21 | |
| 4791672143 | Verbal Irony | The speaker intends to be understood as meaning something that contrasts with the literal or usual meaning of what he says | 22 | |
| 4791684903 | Omniscient Point of View | Third Person; The narrator has complete knowledge of everything that happens in the work, knowing all characters' thoughts, feelings and actions as well as all aspects of the society | 23 | |
| 4791709041 | Limited Omniscient Point of View | Third Person. The narrator provides access to the mind of only one character, usually the protagonist | 24 | |
| 4791713977 | First Person Point of View | The author pretends to disappear altogether and leaves the storytelling to one of the characters in the literary work. The narration uses the first person pronoun, "I". | 25 | |
| 4791725816 | Objective/Dramatic Point of View | The narrator remains completely outside the characters' minds and refrains from comment about the meaning of events. It presents the action like a camera | 26 | |
| 4791742434 | Setting | The "world" in which a literary work's characters are placed in. Comprises the physical, temporal and cultural details of that world | 27 | |
| 4791764932 | Tone | the narrator's attitude toward the subject of the writing | 28 | |
| 4791772799 | Style | the author's particular way of writing or using grammar and diction | 29 | |
| 4791787700 | Flashback | A scene in a literary work that is set in a time earlier than the main story | 30 | |
| 4791800804 | Suspense | language in a work of fiction that arouses excited emotions or uncertainty about what may happen. | 31 | |
| 4791802239 | Diction | the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing. | 32 | |
| 4791810242 | Denotation | the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests. | 33 | |
| 4791812775 | Connotation | the associations and emotional overtones that have become attached to a word, in addition to its strict dictionary definition | 34 | |
| 4791823888 | Narrator | a character who recounts the events of a literary work | 35 | |
| 4791826379 | Mood | An atmosphere created by a writer's diction and the details selected | 36 | |
| 4791826380 | Imagery | the use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of something | 37 |
