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| 14590649774 | In media res | a piece of writing that begins in the middle of the action | 0 | |
| 14590649775 | Flashback | a scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story. | 1 | |
| 14590649776 | chronological | arranged in order of time | 2 | |
| 14590649777 | Exposition | Background information presented in a literary work. | 3 | |
| 14590649778 | rising action | A series of events that builds from the conflict. It begins with the inciting force and ends with the climax. | 4 | |
| 14590649779 | Climax | the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex. | 5 | |
| 14590649780 | Conflict | A struggle between opposing forces | 6 | |
| 14590649781 | Resolution/Denouement | end of a literary work when loose ends are tied up and questions are answered | 7 | |
| 14590649782 | author vs. narrator | An author is anyone who writes a book. A narrator can be someone who reads a story aloud or a character who tells the story within the book. | 8 | |
| 14590649783 | Narrator | the person who tells the story | 9 | |
| 14590649784 | objective point of view | a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events. | 10 | |
| 14590649785 | subjective point of view | the narrator gives the facts of the story plus the emotions and feelings of the characters | 11 | |
| 14590649786 | first person narrator | a narrator within the story who tells the story from the "I" perspective | 12 | |
| 14590649787 | Naïve narrator | a narrator who is too innocent to understand the story fully | 13 | |
| 14590649788 | unreliable narrator | a narrator whose credibility has been seriously compromised | 14 | |
| 14590649789 | second person narrator | consistently uses the second-person pronoun you | 15 | |
| 14590649790 | third person narrator | a narrator outside of the action who tells the story from the he/she vantage point | 16 | |
| 14590649791 | omniscient narrator | a narrator who is able to know, see, and tell all, including the inner thoughts and feelings of the characters | 17 | |
| 14590649792 | editorial omniscience | an intrusion by the narrator in order to evaluate a character for a reader | 18 | |
| 14590649793 | Limited omniscient third person narrator | a narrator who can see into the minds of some, but not all, characters | 19 | |
| 14590649794 | Diction | word choice | 20 | |
| 14590649795 | colloquial | characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation | 21 | |
| 14590649796 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 22 | |
| 14590649797 | Connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. | 23 | |
| 14590649798 | Syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 24 | |
| 14590649799 | Tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | 25 | |
| 14590649800 | Mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader | 26 | |
| 14590649801 | literal | taking words in their usual or most basic sense without metaphor or allegory | 27 | |
| 14590649802 | figerative language | language that is not intended to be interpeted in a literal sense | 28 | |
| 14590649803 | abstract | existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence. | 29 | |
| 14590649804 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 30 | |
| 14590682159 | author vs. narrator | An author is anyone who writes a book. A narrator can be someone who reads a story aloud or a character who tells the story within the book. | 31 | |
| 14590682160 | Line | a unit of language into which a poem or play is divided | 32 | |
| 14590682161 | Stanza | a division of four or more lines having a fixed length, meter or rhyming scheme | 33 | |
| 14590682162 | rhyme scheme | a poet's deliberate pattern of lines that rhyme with other lines in a poem or a stanza | 34 | |
| 14590682163 | internal conflict | psychological struggle within the mind of a literary or dramatic character, the resolution of which creates the plot's suspense | 35 | |
| 14590682164 | external conflict | A struggle between a character and an outside force | 36 | |
| 14590682165 | Foreshadowing | a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story | 37 | |
| 14590682166 | Protagonist | The central character in a work of literature | 38 | |
| 14590682167 | Antagonist | opposes the protagonist | 39 | |
| 14590682168 | dynamic character | A character who grows, learns, or changes as a result of the story's action | 40 | |
| 14590682169 | round character | A character who demonstrates some complexity and who develops or changes in the course of a work | 41 | |
| 14590682170 | static character | A character that does not change from the beginning of the story to the end | 42 | |
| 14590682171 | flat character | a type of character in fiction that does not change too much from the start of the narrative to its end | 43 | |
| 14590682172 | stock character | the stereotyped character in which he is immediately known from typical characters in history | 44 | |
| 14590682173 | foil character | a character's whose main purpose is to highlight the strengths of another character | 45 | |
| 14590682174 | motivated character | a character with reasons for his or her actions | 46 | |
| 14590682175 | plausible character | a character who is life like and believable | 47 | |
| 14590682176 | consistent character | a character whose speech, thoughts, and actions are what the reader has been lead to expect from that particular character | 48 | |
| 14590682177 | conventional symbol | widely recognized signs or sign systems that signify a concept or idea that all members of a group understand based on a common cultural understanding | 49 | |
| 14590682178 | literary symbol | An object carrying symbolic meaning only within the context of a particular work of literature | 50 | |
| 14590682179 | Archetype | a very typical example of a certain person or thing | 51 | |
| 14590682180 | Motif | can be seen as an image, sound, action or other figures that have a symbolic significance and contributes toward the development of theme | 52 | |
| 14590682181 | Bildungsroman | a special kind of novel that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of its main character from his or her youth to adulthood | 53 | |
| 14590682182 | verbal irony | occurs when what is said contradicts what is meant or thought | 54 | |
| 14590694633 | situational irony | occurs when the outcome of a work is unexpected, or events turn out to be the opposite from what one had expected | 55 | |
| 14590694634 | dramatic irony | when the audience knows something the characters do not | 56 | |
| 14590694635 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 57 | |
| 14590694636 | Metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. | 58 | |
| 14590694637 | Hyperbole | a deliberate exaggeration or overstatement | 59 | |
| 14590694638 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 60 | |
| 14590694639 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 61 | |
| 14590694640 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 62 | |
| 14590694641 | Onomatopoeia | A word named for the sound it imitates | 63 | |
| 14590694642 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 64 | |
| 14590694643 | Allusion | A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. | 65 | |
| 14590694644 | visual | To use figurative language to represent objects, actions, and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses | 66 | |
| 14590735608 | auditory | Having to do with the sense of hearing | 67 | |
| 14590735609 | Kinesthetic | pertaining to movement | 68 | |
| 14590735610 | olfactory | relating to the sense of smell | 69 | |
| 14590829926 | gustatory | relating to the sense of taste | 70 | |
| 14590829927 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 71 | |
| 14590829928 | Consonance | refers to repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase | 72 | |
| 14590829929 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 73 | |
| 14590829930 | Satire | the use of irony or sarcasm to critique society or an individual | 74 | |
| 14590829931 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 75 | |
| 14590829932 | Irony | the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect | 76 | |
| 14590829933 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 77 |
