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| 2923368777 | First person | the grammatical person used by a speaker in statements referring to himself or herself or to a group including himself or herself, as I and we in English. | 0 | |
| 2923368778 | Flashback | a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work. | 1 | |
| 2923370749 | Flat character | an easily recognized character type in fiction who may not be fully delineated but is useful in carrying out some narrative purpose of the author. | 2 | |
| 2923370750 | Foreshadowing | to show or indicate beforehand | 3 | |
| 2923372664 | Genre | a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique | 4 | |
| 2923372665 | Imagery | visually descriptive or figurative language | 5 | |
| 2923372666 | Indirect characterization | the process by which the personality of a fictitious character is revealed through the character's speech, actions, appearance, etc. | 6 | |
| 2923375201 | In media res | Latin for "into the middle of things." It usually describes a narrative that begins, not at the beginning of a story, but somewhere in the middle — usually at some crucial point in the action. | 7 | |
| 2923375202 | Irony | the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. | 8 | |
| 2923375203 | Horatian | After the Roman satirist Horace: Satire in which the voice is indulgent, tolerant, amused, and witty. The speaker holds up to gentle ridicule the absurdities and follies of human beings, aiming at producing in the reader not the anger of a Juvenal, but a wry smile. | 9 | |
| 2923377603 | Juvenilian | Juvenalian satire addresses social evil through scorn, outrage, and savage ridicule. This form is often pessimistic, characterized by irony, sarcasm, moral indignation and personal invective, with less emphasis on humor; strongly polarized political satire | 10 | |
| 2923377604 | Limited omniscient point of view | A narrator whose knowledge is limited to one character, either major or minor | 11 | |
| 2923377605 | Minimalist | characterized by an economy with words and a focus on surface description. Minimalist writers abstain from using adverbs and prefer allowing context to dictate meaning. Readers are expected to take an active role in the creation of a story, to "choose sides" based on oblique hints and innuendo, rather than reacting to directions from the writer. | 12 | |
| 2923379893 | Motif | any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story | 13 | |
| 2923379894 | Motivation | the reason someone acts or behaves in a certain way | 14 | |
| 2923379895 | Narrator | a person who narrates something, especially a character who recounts the events of a novel or narrative poem. | 15 | |
| 2923382322 | Objective point of view | the writer tells what happens without stating more than can be inferred from the story's action and dialogue. The narrator never discloses anything about what the characters think or feel, remaining a detached observer. | 16 | |
| 2923382323 | Omniscient point of view | the story is told from an all-seeing God-like, omnipotent viewpoint. You would use third person pronouns in the writing, but you can choose to dip into the head of any of the characters and reveal things that have occurred in the past or will happen in the future. | 17 | |
| 2923383982 | Plot | the events that make up a story, particularly: as they relate to one another in a pattern or in a sequence; as they relate to each other through cause and effect; how the reader views the story; or simply by coincidence. | 18 |
