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| 1810354514 | allegory | a narrative that has a second meaning beneath the surface, often relating each literal term to a fixed, corresponding abstract idea or moral principle | 0 | |
| 1810354515 | antagonist | any force in a story or play that is in conflict with the protagonist | 1 | |
| 1810354516 | artistic unity | that condition of a successful literary work whereby all its elements work together for the achievement of its central purpose | 2 | |
| 1810354517 | chance | the occurrence of an event that has no apparent cause in antecedent events or in predisposition of character | 3 | |
| 1810354518 | characterization | the various literary means by which characters are presented | 4 | |
| 1810354519 | climax | the turning point or high point in a plot | 5 | |
| 1810354520 | coincidence | the chance concurrence of two events having a peculiar correspondence between them | 6 | |
| 1810354521 | commercial fiction | fiction written to meet the taste of a wide popular audience and relying usually on tested formulas for satisfying such taste | 7 | |
| 1810354522 | conflict | a clash of actions, desires, ideas, or goals in the plot of a story or drama | 8 | |
| 1810354523 | deus ex machine | resolution of a plot by use of a highly improbable chance or coincidence | 9 | |
| 1810354524 | developing/dynamic character | a character who during the course of a work undergoes a permanent change in some distinguishing moral qualities or personal traits or outlook | 10 | |
| 1810354525 | dilemma | a situation in which a character must choose between two courses of action, both undesirable | 11 | |
| 1810354526 | direct presentation | method of characterization in which the author, by exposition or analysis, tells us directly what a character is like, or has someone else in the story do so | 12 | |
| 1810354527 | dramatic irony | an incongruity or discrepancy between what a character says or thinks and what a reader knows to be true (or between what a character perceives and what the author intends the reader to perceive) | 13 | |
| 1810354528 | dramatization | the presentation of character or of emotion through the speech or action of characters rather than through exposition, analyses, or description by the author | 14 | |
| 1810354529 | editorialize | writing that departs from the narrative or dramatic mode and instructs the reader how to think or feel about the events of a story or the behavior of a character | 15 | |
| 1810354530 | epiphany | moment or event in which a character achieves a spiritual insight into life or into her or his own circumstances | 16 | |
| 1810354531 | falling action | the segment of the plot that comes between the climax and the conclusion | 17 | |
| 1810354532 | fantasy | a kind of fiction that pictures creatures or events beyond the boundaries of known reality | 18 | |
| 1810354533 | first-person point of view | the story is told by one of its character, using the first-person | 19 | |
| 1810354534 | flat characters | a character whose distinguishing moral qualities or personal traits are summed up in one or two traits | 20 | |
| 1810354535 | happy ending | an ending in which events turn out well for a sympathetic protagonist | 21 | |
| 1810354536 | indeterminate ending | an ending in which the central problem or conflict is left unresolved | 22 | |
| 1810354537 | indirect presentation | that method of characterization in which the author shows us a character in action, compelling us to infer what the character is like from what is said or done by the character | 23 | |
| 1810354538 | irony | a situation or use of language involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy | 24 | |
| 1810354539 | irony of situation | a situation in which there is an incongruity between appearance and reality, or between expectation and fulfillment, or between the actual situation and what would seem appropriate | 25 | |
| 1810354540 | literary fiction | fiction written with serious artistic intentions, providing an imagined experience yielding authentic insights into some significant aspect of life | 26 | |
| 1810354541 | motivation | incentives or goals that, in combination with the inherent natures of characters, cause them to behave as they do | 27 | |
| 1810354542 | mystery | an unusual set of circumstances for which the reader crave an explanation; used to create suspense | 28 | |
| 1810354543 | objective/dramatic point of view | author tells the story using the third person, but is limited to reporting what the characters say or od; the author doesn't interpret | 29 | |
| 1810354544 | omniscient point of view | author tells the story using the third person, knowing all and free to tell us anything, including what the characters are thinking or feeling and why the act as they do | 30 | |
| 1810354545 | plot | sequence of incidents or events of which a story or play is composed | 31 | |
| 1810354546 | plot manipulation | a situation in which an author gives the plot a twist or turn unjustified by preceded action or by the characters involved | 32 | |
| 1810354547 | poetize | writing that uses immoderately heightened or distended language to sway the reader's feelings | 33 | |
| 1810354548 | point of view | the angle of vision from a story is told | 34 | |
| 1810354549 | protagonist | central character in a story | 35 | |
| 1810354550 | rising action | that development of plot in a story or play that precedes and leads up to the climax | 36 | |
| 1810354551 | round characters | a character whose distinguishing moral qualities or personal traits are complex and many-sided | 37 | |
| 1810354552 | sarcasm | bitter or cutting speech; speech intended by its speaker to give pain to the person addressed | 38 | |
| 1810354553 | sentimentality | unmerited or contrived tender feeling; that quality in a work that elicits or seeks to elicit tears through an oversimplification or falsification of reality | 39 | |
| 1810354554 | static character | a character who is the same sort of person at the end of a work as at the beginning | 40 | |
| 1810354555 | stock character | a stereotyped character: one whose nature is familiar to us from prototypes in previous literature | 41 | |
| 1810354556 | stream of consciousness | narrative that presents the privat thoughts of a character without commentary or interpretation by the author | 42 | |
| 1810354557 | structure | sequential arrangement of plot elements in fiction or drama | 43 | |
| 1810354558 | surprise | an unexpected turn in the development of a plot | 44 | |
| 1810354559 | surprise ending | a completely unexpected revelation or turn of plot at the conclusion of a story or play | 45 | |
| 1810354560 | suspense | that quality in a story or play that makes the reader eager to discover what happens next and how it will end | 46 | |
| 1810354561 | symbol | something that means more than what it is | 47 | |
| 1810354562 | theme | central idea or unifying generalization implied or stated by a literary work | 48 | |
| 1810354563 | third-person limited point of view | the author tells the story using the third person, but is limited to a complete knowledge of one character in the story and tells us only what that one character thinks, feels, sees, and hears | 49 | |
| 1810354564 | unhappy ending | an ending that turns out unhappily for a sympathetic protagonist | 50 | |
| 1810354565 | verbal irony | a figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant | 51 |
