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| 5709411213 | Allegory | A narration usually restricted to a single meaning because its events, actions, characters, settings, and objects represent specific abstractions or ideas (symbols) | 0 | |
| 5709411214 | Allusion | A brief reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea in history or literature | 1 | |
| 5709414143 | Ambiguity | Allows for two or more simultaneous interpretations of a word, phrase, action or situation all of which can be supported by the context of the work | 2 | |
| 5709414144 | Antagonist | The person, force, or collection of forces in fiction that opposes the protagonist and gives rise to conflict in the story | 3 | |
| 5709417271 | Archetype | A recurring pattern in literature that evokes deep and sometimes unconscious responses in the reader | 4 | |
| 5709417272 | Canon | The works generally considered by scholars, critics, and teachers to be the most important works to study | 5 | |
| 5709417273 | Characterization | The process by which a writer makes that character seem real to the reader | 6 | |
| 5709421657 | Dramatic Irony | Creates a discrepancy between what the character believes or says and what the audience knows to be true | 7 | |
| 5709421658 | Epiphany | A character suddenly experiences a deep realization or truth about himself or herself | 8 | |
| 5709424921 | Exposition | A narrative device that provides necessary background information about characters and their circumstances | 9 | |
| 5709424922 | First Person Point of View | Involves a first person narrator who uses I and is a participant in the action | 10 | |
| 5709428433 | Foil | A character in a work whose behavior, values, and often appearance contrast with those of another character to highlight the distinctive temperament of that character (usually the protagonist.) | 11 | |
| 5709428434 | Foreshadowing | The introduction early in a story of verbal and dramatic hints that suggest what is to come later | 12 | |
| 5709432624 | Hyperbole | A boldly exaggerated statement that adds emphasis without intending to be literally true | 13 | |
| 5709432625 | Limited Omniscience | Occurs when an author restricts a narrator to the single perspective of either a major or minor character. The way people, places, and events appear to that character is the way they appear to the reader | 14 | |
| 5709436392 | Magical Realism | Is characterized by the mingling and juxtaposition of the realistic and the fantastic, bizarre and skillful time shifts, convoluted and even labyrinthine narratives and plots, miscellaneous use of dreams, myths and fairy stories, expressionistic and even surrealistic description, arcane erudition, the elements of surprise or abrupt shock, the horrific and the inexplicable | 15 | |
| 5709436393 | Narrator | The voice of the person telling the story | 16 | |
| 5709440360 | Objective Point of View | Employing a third-person narrator who does not see into the mind of any character | 17 | |
| 5709440361 | Plot | The organized sequence of events in a story | 18 | |
| 5709445167 | Protagonist | The main character of a narrative; its central character who engages the reader's interest and empathy | 19 | |
| 5709445168 | Satire | The literary art of ridiculing folly or vice in order to expose or correct it | 20 | |
| 5709447944 | Setting | The time, the place, and the social environment that frames the characters | 21 | |
| 5709447945 | Situational Irony | Exists when there is an incongruity between what is expected to happen and what actually happens due to forces beyond human comprehension or control | 22 | |
| 5709451020 | Surrealism | A 20th-century literary and artistic movement that attempts to express the workings of the subconscious and is characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter | 23 | |
| 5709451021 | Symbol | A person, object, image, word, or event that evokes a range of additional meaning beyond and usually more abstract than its literal significance | 24 | |
| 5709454350 | Theme | The central meaning or dominant idea in a literary work | 25 | |
| 5709454351 | Third Person Point of View | The narrator uses he, she, or they to tell the story and does not participate in the action | 26 | |
| 5709458003 | Tone | The author's implicit attitude toward the reader or the people, places, and events in a work as revealed by the elements of the author's style | 27 | |
| 5709458004 | Understatement | Refers to a figure of speech that says less than is intended | 28 | |
| 5709463928 | Unreliable Narrator | Reveals an interpretation of events that somehow differs from the author's own interpretation of the events | 29 | |
| 5709463972 | Verbal Irony | A figure of speech when a character says one thing but means the opposite | 30 | |
| 5709467285 | Verisimilitude | Is achieved by a writer or storyteller when he presents striking details which lend an air of authenticity to a tale | 31 |
