For Mrs. Clement's AP Lit class
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| 100190037 | Plot | The sequence of incidents or events of which a story is composed, presented in a significant order. | |
| 100190038 | Conflict | A clash of actions, ideas, desires or wills. | |
| 100190039 | Protagonist | The central character in the conflict. | |
| 100190040 | Antagonist | Forces arrayed against the protagonist, whether persons, things, conventions of society, or traits of their own characters. | |
| 100190041 | Suspense | Impels the readers to read on the find out what is going to happen next. | |
| 100190042 | Dilemma | When a character has to choose between two actions, both undesirable. | |
| 100190043 | Surprise Ending | Radical departure from what is most expected and reveals a sudden new turn or twist. | |
| 100190044 | Indeterminate Ending | An ending where no definite conclusion is reached. | |
| 100190045 | Plot Manipulation | When an author relies too heavily on chance or coincidence to bring about a solution to the story. | |
| 100190046 | Coincidence | The chance concurrence of two events that have a peculiar correspondence. | |
| 100190047 | Direct Presentation | When an author tells about a character whether through explanation or analysis. | |
| 100190048 | Indirect Presentation | When an author shows what a character is like through action. | |
| 100190049 | Flat Character | Characterized by one or two traits | |
| 100190050 | Round Character | Complex and many sided character. | |
| 100190051 | Stock Character | Stereotyped figures who have occurred so often in fiction that their nature is immediately known. | |
| 100190052 | Static Character | Same person at the end of the story as they were at the beginning. | |
| 100190053 | Dynamic Character | Undergoes a permanent change in some aspect of character, personality, or outlook. | |
| 100190054 | Theme | Controlling idea or central insight of a story. | |
| 100190055 | Point of View | Who tells the story and how it is told. | |
| 100190056 | Omniscient | Told in the third person by a narrator whose knowledge and prerogatives are unlimited. | |
| 100190057 | Limited Omniscient | Told in the third person but the viewpoint of one character in the story. | |
| 100190058 | First Person | The author disappears into one of the characters. | |
| 100190059 | Objective | The author only tells the action of the story. | |
| 100190060 | Symbol | Something that means more than what it is. | |
| 100190061 | Verbal Irony | A figure of speech in which the opposite is said from what is intended. | |
| 100190062 | Dramatic Irony | Contrast between what a character says and what the reader knows to be true. | |
| 100190063 | Situational Irony | Discrepancy between appearance and reality, expectation and fulfillment. | |
| 100190064 | Sentimentality | When a story aims at drawing forth unmerited tender feeling. | |
| 100190065 | Fantasy | A story that transcends the bounds of reality. | |
| 100190066 | Tone | the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author |
