7012842612 | ambiguity | a vagueness of meaning; a conscious lack of clarity meant to evoke multiple meanings and interpretation | 0 | |
7012839819 | allegory | a story in which the narrative/characters carry an underlying symbolic, metaphorical, or ethical meaning | 1 | |
7012842613 | antagonist | a character or force in a work of literature that opposes the protagonist to create the conflict | 2 | |
7012843791 | protagonist | the main character of a literary work | 3 | |
7012843792 | archetype | an abstract or ideal conception of a type; a perfectly typical example; an original model/form | 4 | |
7012845243 | atmosphere | the emotional tone or background that surrounds a scene | 5 | |
7012848918 | fable | a short tale often featuring nonhuman characters that act as people and whose actions enable the author to make observations or draw useful lessons about human behavior | 6 | |
7012848919 | gothic | style of writing characterized by elements of fear, horror, sadness, and death as well as elements of romanticism such as individuality, nature, and high emotion | 7 | |
7012850185 | harangue | a forceful sermon, lecture, or tirade | 8 | |
7012851169 | third person omniscient | a point of view in which the narrator has unlimited awareness, understanding, and insight of all characters, setting, background, and other elements of the story | 9 | |
7012851170 | third person limited | a point of view in which the narrator generally reports only what one character sees and the thoughts of that one character | 10 | |
7012851171 | mood | the overall feeling of a literary work | 11 | |
7012852200 | satire | a literary style used to poke fun at, attack, or ridicule an idea, vice, or foible, often for the purpose of making a change in society or bringing about awareness | 12 | |
7012852201 | moral | a brief and often simplistic lesson that a reader may infer from a work of literature | 13 | |
7012852202 | nemesis | the protagonist's archenemy or supreme and persistent difficulty | 14 | |
7012853608 | parable | a story that instructs; a story that consists of a moral or spiritual truth | 15 | |
7012853609 | pathetic fallacy | ascribing human feelings to nature or non human objects (a kind of personification that focuses only on nature) | 16 | |
7012854734 | prelude | an introduction, usually to a poem or longer work of verse | 17 | |
7012857138 | tone | an author's attitude toward the topic or subject | 18 | |
7012858627 | romanticism | the literary style that emphasizes imagination, nature, emotion, and individual expression | 19 |
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