Caston-Smith
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| the central idea, moral message or insight of a work of literature | ||
| the time and place of a story or play | ||
| the vantage point from which a story is told | ||
| one of the characters tells the story using first person pronouns such as I or we. All information about the story comes from one person. | ||
| an unknown narrator tells the story and usually zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character | ||
| an all-knowing narrator tells the story using third person pronouns such as he, she, or they. The narrator can tell about the past, present and future of all characters. The narrator is not in the story | ||
| the personality a character displays or the means by which an author reveals that personality | ||
| does not change throughout the story | ||
| changes as a result of the story's events | ||
| the sequence of events or happenings in a literary work | ||
| the part of a plot in which the reader is given important background information on the characters, their setting, and their problems, usually at the beginning of a story | ||
| a struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces, or emotions | ||
| a way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or a particular group of people | ||
| a writer or speaker's choice of words, an essential element of style | ||
| the use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot | ||
| language that appeals to the senses and the forming of mental images: sight, sound, touch, smell, taste | ||
| a contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality - between what is said & what is meant, what is expected & what really happens, or what appears to be true & what really is true | ||
| a contrast between what is said and what is meant | ||
| - a contrast between what would seem appropriate and what really happens or what we expect and what really takes place | ||
| the audience knows something important that the character does not know | ||
| a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things without using connective words such as like, as, than, resembling | ||
| statement or situation that seems to be a contradiction but reveals a truth | ||
| a kind of metaphor in which a non-human thing or quality is talked about as if it were human | ||
| takes place entirely in the character's mind - Man against Himself | ||
| a character's struggle against outside forces: Man against Man, Man against Nature, or Man against Society | ||
| complications that arise as the characters take steps to resolve their conflict | ||
| the point of greatest emotional intensity, interest or suspense in a narrative | ||
| all the action after the turning point or climax | ||
| the outcome of the conflict in a story | ||
| main character in fiction or drama | ||
| type of writing that ridicules something (a person, a group of people, humanity at large, an attitude or failing, a social institution) in order to reveal a weakness | ||
| a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things using words such as like, as, than, or resembles | ||
| uncertainty or anxiety that the reader feels about what is going to happen next in a story | ||
| a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something more than itself | ||
| the attitude the writer takes toward the subject, the characters in it, or the audience |
