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| 2131963657 | denouement | (day-noo-mon) the final resolution or clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot; the events following the climax of a drama or novel | 0 | |
| 2131963659 | kennings | compound expression that employs figurative language in place of a more concrete single-word noun (Examples: "storm of swords" = battle, "the pathless deep" = ocean, "wave-skimmer" = ship) | 1 | |
| 2131963660 | trope | a figure of speech using words in non-literal ways; literally, "a turning away" (Examples: metaphor, simile, metonymy, synecdoche, irony, etc.) | 2 | |
| 2132125941 | in medias res | (mey-dee-ahs reys) literally "in the middle of things"; starting a narrative in the middle of the action (Example: Iliad begins after Trojan war has been raging for 7 years.) | 3 | |
| 2132125942 | point of view | the perspective from which a story is told | 4 | |
| 2132125943 | omniscient narrator | a narrator who is able to know, see, and tell all, including the inner thoughts and feelings of the characters | 5 | |
| 2132125944 | limited omniscient narrator | a third-person narrator who reports the thoughts of only one character and generally only what that one character sees | 6 | |
| 2132125945 | first-person narrator | a narrator who is a character in the story and tells the tale from his/her point of view | 7 | |
| 2132125946 | objective narrator | third person narrator reports what would be visible to a camera; feelings and thoughts revealed only through dialogue; author's feelings left out | 8 | |
| 2132125947 | stream of consciousness | a style of writing in which the author tries to reproduce the random flow of thoughts in the human mind | 9 |
